The Force Awakens turns five today and Star Warsis in the mood to celebrate. The Sequel Trilogy has been over for almost a year now, but fans are still in the mood to look back on the first step in Rey’s journey. The Force Awakens dropped on December 18th 2015. Everything old was new again as J.J. Abrams tried to remind audiences what they loved about the original trilogy with his effort there. Series fans now love Finn, Rey, and Poe a ton, although the end to the Sequel Trilogy may complicate that for some viewers. There’s no question that the movies will continue to be hotly debated for years to come. One of the dominant conversations on social media in the wake of The Force Awakens was how fans should feel about all those thematic callbacks and allusions to A New Hope. Well, by the end of these last three movies, a lot of people have been kinder to the film that kicked it all off.
There has been an awakening! Join us in celebrating the 5th anniversary of #TheForceAwakens. pic.twitter.com/XnTX0KFDz1
— Star Wars (@starwars) December 18, 2020
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Abrams told Peter Travers about his reasoning for the structure, “There are a number of things that we obviously intentionally did in a kind of ‘history repeats itself’ mold, to say we are introducing this brand new cast of characters. This Stormtrooper (John Boyega) who runs from the First Order. This scavenger (Daisy Ridley) who is living, literally, in the wreckage of the history of the movies that we know. And this hotshot pilot (Oscar Isaac), we don’t know his history, but he’s joined the Resistance to find Leia (Carrie Fisher), years later, sort of unable to give up the fight because she can smell smoke from miles away. Where’s Han (Harrison Ford) at this point, what is he up to?”
“And look, is there a big, giant, planet-sized weapon in Force Awakens? Yes. And does it blow up? It does blow up,” Abrams said. “And so there are undeniable parallels, but in a way, because there had not been a Star Wars movie in a long time — the prequels were the ones that preceded it — I very purposefully wanted to sort of revisit the old in order to start and tell the new. And that was the challenge…. For those who hate it, I could not respect your opinion more. And for those who love it, I question your sanity. It just felt right to us at the time, as does this one [The Rise of Skywalker] now.”
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I gotta rewatch it!!! I love this movie so much! #StarWarshttps://t.co/fhRY25rJce
— Artulis (@NirEli5) December 19, 2020Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary Gift
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This movie led the way to my star wars obsession 🖤 https://t.co/o0QSxmVSNH
— Ffion 💫 (@Ffion_skywalker) December 18, 2020prevnextTime just stretches on
IT'S BEEN 5 YEARS ALREADY????? https://t.co/ww1ehZZO6M
— #JusticeForJohnnyDepp (@AnnTargaryen_) December 18, 2020prevnextIt's a weird feeling isn't it
I feel old https://t.co/YpqU5wLarL
— Maryse127 (@Maryse1272) December 18, 2020prevnextThis is just nice to read
I love this film with all my heart. I’m so thankful it exists.
I would say it’s hard to believe that five years have already passed since its release; truly, though, it feels like a lifetime has passed since I was sitting in a theater on the night of December 17, 2015. https://t.co/0IwPYPPAuQ
— Shade (@SowingShade) December 18, 2020prevnextTrue that
The force is strong. 💪 https://t.co/IRxqZWn8Vx
— Scotty Mar10 (@Allenma15086871) December 18, 2020prevnextReally been that long
FIVE YEARS????!?!?????? https://t.co/sU7wx1juCP
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— L0E (@kmjkv) December 19, 2020prevnextThat's real deep
can’t believe it’s been 5 years since kyle ren has owned me body, mind and soul https://t.co/mioGKNshx1
— anakin stan account (@jabbathe_slut) December 19, 2020prev
As SpaceX closes out a halcyon year, today marks the fifth anniversary of the first Falcon booster landing and the company is celebrating with record-breaking streak of success.
SpaceX completed its last launch and landing on December 19th, delivering a mysterious US spy satellite to low Earth orbit (LEO) while Falcon 9 booster B1059 returned to Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) for its fifth successful recovery in 12 months. Known as NROL-108, the mission was SpaceX’s 26th of the year, crushing its previous record of 21 launches by almost 25%.
Aside making Falcon 9 the world’s most-launched rocket of 2020 and demonstrating over a full quarter that an annual cadence of 40+ launches is well within SpaceX’s reach, NROL-108 also marked an impressive booster landing milestone almost five years to the day after the first success.
As of NROL-108, SpaceX has now consecutively landed 20 Falcon boosters without failure, breaking a previous record of 19. Incredibly, the company has set that record in 2020 despite the fact that the last Falcon booster landing failure occurred in March of this year. In other words, SpaceX has successfully landed 20 boosters in a row in the eight months since.
After a flawless year of landings in 2017, SpaceX has suffered one or a few failed booster landings every year since – including two in 2020. As SpaceX continues to demonstrate that Falcon boosters really are capable of meeting their design goal of no less than 10 launches each, failed landings (and thus the loss of boosters) are an increasingly undesirable outcome. With any luck, 20 back-to-back landings suggest that SpaceX has found its stride and hopefully quashed most of the technical and organizational issues that allowed for multiple failed recoveries in recent years.
As of NROL-108, SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy boosters have completed 70 successful landings (of 80 attempts) in the last five years. In other words, of the Falcon family’s 105 successful launches, almost two-thirds (67) have included one or more successful booster landings.
Ultimately, SpaceX is just getting started and CEO Elon Musk recently revealed a target of 48 launches in 2021 – nearly double its already record-breaking pace in 2020. With expendable Falcon launches an increasingly endangered species, it’s safe to say there will be a lot more booster landings next year.