John Glenn's orbital missions.
Since then we went to the moon, and built reusable spacecraft. One year ago this week I took this picture, the last flight of Space Shuttle Discovery prior to her retirement. Now, the USA has none of it's own manned spaceflight programs. If we want to go we have to hitch a ride with the Russians.
Here's the next step...and hopefully it's going to happen at Spaceport America in New Mexico sometime in the next 18 months.
There may be one small challenge, in New Mexico the greedy trial lawyers - the folks who make all of the money when someone sues on behalf of a client to has been "wronged" by an evil deed - have defeated proposals to provide some protection to the manufacturer of some parts of the flight equipment - as I understand it.
Meanwhile, some other states competing with New Mexico for future private space travel have agreed to the limited liability protection. They could take business away from New Mexico, and that would be a shame - just because some greedy trial lawyers - are hoping something goes wrong so they can sue the deep pockets, win the lawsuit, and then make enough from the settlement to buy their own private plane.
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