America’s innovative return to orbit

YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU’VE GOT TILL IT’S gone. If you don’t believe that, consider the jubilation in Cape Canaveral at 3:22 p.m. E.T. on May 30, when an American rocket carrying an American crew lifted off from American soil for the first time since 2011, carrying astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station (ISS).

The last time there was this kind of U.S. hoopla for a mere flight to low Earth orbit might have been the first time, on Feb. 20, 1962, when John Glenn