Are we still in the space age?  It depends on who you ask.  Officially, yes.  But NASA hasn't launched a shuttle in over a decade.  We haven't set foot on a non-earth object in 50 years.  So what's so spacey about the current age?  Privatization, for one.  Everyone's upset at the ultra wealthy multi-billionaires that seem so common these days, but a lot of those billionaires have a keen interest in space, the money to fund it, and the willingness to actually take a risk.  Meanwhile, Congress is still concerned with getting phonographs to work in zero gravity.  That was a joke.  Or was it?

Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age - amzn.to/3bnSNs8
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