Hot off of revolutionizing ground-based transportation with the electric car company Tesla and revolutionizing slightly-above-the-ground-based transportation with the Hyperloop, eccentric billionaire genius Elon Musk appears to believe he has risen above the law.  Or rather, he believes his SpaceX Grasshopper rocket has risen above the law.
What was this brazen defiance of international norms?  On August 9, Musk violated the touch-move rule by picking up his 10-story tall SpaceX Grasshopper rocket, moving it a tenth of a km horizontally, and then placing it back on the exact same landing pad where it began.  As anyone who has played rocket chess knows, the touch-move rule means that once you touch the red button that fires your rocket, you must make a legal move with that rocket.  Replacing the rocket on the same landing pad, especially after moving 100 m sideways, is a clear violation of international rocket chess tournament rules.

Chess rule-breaking aside, it would be rather difficult to overstate how impressive this demonstration was.  SpaceX is attempting to create a fully re-useable rocket ship, which the company claims could cut the cost of space travel by 99%  (If you think airline fees are excessive now, imagine if they had to replace the plane with every flight).  True, the late space shuttle itself returned home in useable condition, but the actual rockets it needed to get to orbit were jettisoned into the ocean (an expensive place for a pick-up) and the fuel tank burned up in the atmosphere on every flight.

A fully re-useable rocket ship would