FIVE ROCKETS TO REMEMBER
In an age when billionaires ride rockets into space, it’s easy to forget the dangerous and dramatic adventure space travel used to be. Here are five scenes from flights that moved the adventure from test pilot “right stuff” to boldly going where no man, etc.
May 5, 1961 — Alan Shepard — Just 15 minutes in space, but it was a start — for the US.
2. July 16, 1969 — Apollo 11
3. April 12, 1981 — First Space Shuttle
4. December 21, 2015 — Space X — Going up and coming down
5. The Apollo launches — From “In the Shadow of the Moon”