It's Monday, January 16, 2023.

I'm Albert Molar, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

As a boy, I saw many rocket launches from the Kennedy Space Center, and even as I watched

them, they never lost their thrill.

The biggest ones, of course, in my boyhood were the Apollo missions.

The big rocket was known as the Saturn V. The Saturn V was indeed one of the most powerful

machines human beings have ever invented.

The Saturn V that launched Apollo 11, that was the mission that first took human beings

successfully to the moon and back, it was at liftoff exercising 7.5 million pounds of

thrust.

That's an enormous machine, as I said, one of the most powerful machines ever invented

by human beings.

There's something about watching one of these massive rockets launch into space that

is both simultaneously prideful and humbling.

Prideful, and that it's an incredible human achievement, but humbling, is that it makes

a human being to scale feel quite small indeed, even to feel small with the power of the

engines readily apparent.

But let's just think about what took place last night.

SpaceX successfully launched the first Falcon Heavy mission of 2023, and it went off basically

without a hitch, even though it had been originally scheduled for Saturday night.

I and my family had the opportunity to stand there as we watched the mission begin and

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