It's no longer breaking news that SpaceX had a successful launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket and that two of its three boosters successfully landed back on Earth. The success sets the precedent for rocket launches moving forward, dramatically reducing the cost of each launch while improving payload capacity over previous rockets.

On board this particular rocket? A spacesuit-clad mannequin riding a Tesla Roadster.

There's even an awesome video put together by SpaceX highlighting all of the failures it took to get to where we are now.

While people have been praising the success online, and the man himself, Elon Musk, has explained how Falcon Heavy's success will change the course of space travel forever, I want to take a moment to sit back and appreciate what the hell just happened.

That takes a bit of context.

Let's circle back to 1st grade. I had just received permission from my school's library to check out books from the fifth graders' section, which meant access to a wide variety of popular kids' books like "Captain Underpants" and "Junie B. Jones" to name some.

But what I really wanted was the astronomy books. Basic, rudimentary books on space and all we knew about it. I was obsessed. I think I checked out every book that small, school library had on anything related to rockets, stars, planets, the universe or whatever.

I read them religiously, learning everything I could. Those books probably saw more attention than my actual schoolwork. The more that I consumed and learned, the cooler space became and the more I wanted to explore it. To see it. Feel it.

My dedication to the study waned over the years, but my love for space travel and the mysteries surrounding it still persists. Sci-fi stories to real-world feats of scientific marvel like Falcon Heavy always catch my attention. One of my favorite movies is Disney's "Treasure Planet," one of their most underrated films ever.

That mystery, that thrill, that wide frontier of questions and answers that lie between the stars, thinking about it brings me back to those days of an elementary school kid with a backpack full of books and his head in the clouds.

And while some days it seems like our progress towards the heavens has stagnated, caught up in political and monetary squabbles, things like SpaceX and Falcon Heavy stand as brilliant reminders that we haven't stopped.

Voyager 1 is still voyaging.

The Curiosity rover is still roving.

And Falcon Heavy has spread its wings, taken to the skies, and come back home, leaving the SpaceMan in the SpaceCar out in... well... space

So how's the view out there, big guy?