Dragon Ships

A fanciful diversion, for a moment. I have just posted an image of the Susan Constant, the ship I have taken as one inspiration for these posts. But there are other inspirations of course. The first European settlers in the new world were Vikings. A long while back, NASA named its first unmanned martian landers Viking 1 and 2. Viking long ships have often been known as Dragon Ships, primarily because of the flowing dragon carvings which adorned their prows. So the thought that some future development of Space X's Dragon spaceship might be involved in transporting an early settlement venture would be delightfully appropriate. By Dragon Ship to Mars. Quite a romantic notion.