Much is being made of the recent launch pad explosion of Blue Origin’s massive rocket, an event that to some suggests we may have lost our way in seeking the high ground of space.
Those who believe this have forgotten their American history. Our nation’s first response to the Soviet Union’s Sputnik success in the 1950s was Vanguard, which promptly fell back on the pad after launch and exploded in a fireball.
Yet we would go on to be the only nation to land men on the Moon. Repeatedly.
