Good morning, Whitewater
The National Weather Service predicts patchy fog and 80 degrees. The Farmers’ Almanac predicts hot weather, followed by thunderstorms.
In American history today, Wired reports that in 1956 “a Bell X-2 rocket plane sets the record for fastest speed by an aircraft, reaching Mach 2.87, or more than 1,900 mph, 60,000 feet above the dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base, California.”
The Wired story details American success at setting speed records during that decade.
We’ve lost the excitement of that era, and our government space program that is a descendent of these speed records is mired in uncertainty and delay. Private efforts, though, are producing interesting results.