> and it seemed then inevitable my generation would be Earth-bound our whole lives. Yeah, by that time Falcon-9 already flew (first flight on June 4, 2010), an

> and it seemed then inevitable my generation would be Earth-bound our whole lives. Yeah, by that time Falcon-9 already flew (first flight on June 4, 2010), and those tiny little green men on the other side of the pond(s) were routinely sending people - including Americans - to ISS. Label that as a failed metaphor?