2011 Summer Program
On May 5th, 1961, a Mercury-Redstone 3 rocket pushed Alan Shepherd 116 miles above the earth. The flight lasted 15 minutes and 28 seconds. An American had reached space. Fifty years later the future for spaceflight is uncertain. But it's been a remarkable half century. Reconstruct 50 years in 5 days. Construct and launch Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft. Launch a miniature space Shuttle and help build an International Space Station. Map the timeline, trajectories and triumphs of human spaceflight on a globe connected to it's not too distant moon.
Cost: $105 Billion (includes return trip to the moon.) Batteries and rocket engines included.
