Even 60 years after the US and Russia put the first humans into space, new spins on those sorts of missions can still grab our …
Even 60 years after the US and Russia put the first humans into space, new spins on those sorts of missions can still grab our attention and fire our imagination. That’s happened twice now in just the last few weeks, first with the flight to the edge of space by Richard Branson and his Virgin Galactic crew, followed by Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin ‘s brief fling with weightlessness. But were these just joyrides, or is there a bigger purpose behind the rocket launches and the safe, swift return to Earth? That’s something these ventures will have to prove in the coming months, as will fellow space enthusiast Elon Musk and his various SpaceX undertakings.
