Today is the second bleakest day in US space travel. The bleakest was October 4, 1957. When Sputnik was launched. This was the sound of failure in my smallkidtime.
Grandmother Blanche was proud to have lived from before Kitty Hawk through Mercury. Grandmother Peggy is not proud to have lived from the V2 rocket era to seeing the US land on the Moon to US buying a ticket to ride on a Russian rocket. But, we do have reality TV shows.