My take on a royal trip, a talkative robot and a device for landing spacecraft softly – Peter Rhodes
The task for Elon Musk's crew is to recover the spacecraft's hugely expensive Super Heavy Booster by means of a soft landing. The boffins' solution is a gigantic pair of “chopstick” grabbers which seize the mighty booster as it descends. It was thrilling to behold but it struck me as a bit Heath Robinsonish, although I dare say the cartoonist would have achieved a soft landing by different means. Like a very, very big mattress.