Today is the 30th anniversary of the first shuttle flight. Even bigger: It's the 50th anniversary of the first person in space. At the height of the Cold War, our adversaries launched a man into space and scared the hell out of the USA. Today, Americans love Yuri. Who would have predicted that in 1961? And who would have predicted that, 50 years later, you would need the Russians to take you to the Space Station?
Meanwhile, 100 years earlier, the Civil War started.
