Space

[vakkotaur]

October 4, 1957: Sputnik I is the first artificial satellite.

October 4, 2004: Space Ship One carries people into space for the second time in two weeks.

It's still the dawn of the space age.

Comments

[irpooh]

Your post made me think of just how dated one of my lines in the show I'm doing is... now remember, right now I'm playing the town ecentric who fancies herself a palm reader/herbalist/psychic and quotes Shakespeare
Me: I'll cure her for you, but we'll have to wait until the moon is right
Other Character: When will that be?
Me: When those men stop walking on it.

[vakkotaur]

Dated, for now, and likely for a while yet. I expect humans will return. The European explorers didn't really set up shop in the Americas successfully until after a few encounters and tries. I just hope that I see the results - and that my country, or countrymen, are among those getting said results.

I suppose it's not too bad, considering the history of flight, that the first private space-flights are taking place not much over a century after the first heavier-air-flights. It just seems that things should be much farther along than they are.