Going backwards?
November 9 was the fifty-second anniversary of the first Saturn V launch.
It would seem that in the USA, state-sponsored rocketry has made no progress in that half century and may even be going backwards. That launch was a success!
In perspective, the 50 years from 1919 to 1969 saw commercial aircraft development go from wooden bi-planes to the 747.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
