Today appears to be the 50th anniversary of the day the son of collectivist farmers completed a space orbit of the earth and sent a certain superpower into a tizzy, leading to a decade or so in which space exploration was actually Important, until the day we realized there wasn’t anyone left to outdo and went back to contemplating our navels.
Sorry about that, Yuri. But who knows, maybe one day some bored millionaire with a modest amount of vision will realize that space continues to be Important, even if very few people in America seem to think so.