Let the shockwave topple monuments

[sovay]

I felt much more ambivalent about the development of the Bell X-1 after I learned the history of the Miles M.52, but I still recognize the loss of Chuck Yeager. I grew up building and launching model rockets; one of my childhood talismans was a Matchbox SR-71. I can't remember not knowing about him.

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Re: Allow me:

[nodrog]

Meanwhile, Major Matt Mason, Mattel’s Man in Space® has really been there - someone's recent ultra-high-altitude exosphere balloon carried a small passenger.  I have seen that iconic Project Mercury pressure suit and yellow-visored helmet with the true blue curve of the Earth and black space beyond:  Out of suburban houses and up into actual X-15 country at long last!

(I’ve heard that John Glenn brought one with him when he flew again in the Space Shuttle, but that’s only hearsay.)