Commercial Flights Could Soon Be Faster Than Sound Again | Blake Scholl #487 | The Way I Heard It (opens in new tab)

I was seven years old when America made it to the moon\. Too young to fully appreciate the significance of that accomplishment, but old enough to assume – logically, I think – that we would have surely ventured a whole lot farther by 2026\. But we didn’t, and I think I understand why\. We were in a space race, and we won\. But, when the race was over, we had to reconsider our motivation in every category, including cost, risk, and so forth\. In the end, I guess we had bigger fish to fry\. Lat...