Very cool picture. I agree about the name. I hope the Golden age is yet to come.
May 5th 1961 Alan Sheppard was the first American in space. It was a 15 minute suborbital flight.
July 20 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon.
Its hard to imagine what we would have achieved if we had kept up that rate of advancement.
Actuaklly if you look at the Apollo missions themselves, they had a pretty good upward curve going.