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Thats right folks, today is the day we celebrate Yuri Gagarin’s historic and heroic first manned orbit of the Earth.

Yes, those were bold days, when a man could be a man in a diaper, and still get confetti dropped on him in the square in Red Moscow.  What happened to that grit, that moxie, that made countries slit each others throats to head up to space?  Space flight is no less necessary today than it was in the 60’s, so what happened to our chances of living in the stars?

Was it all just a big cold war sucker punch?