The morning sky above London Heathrow Airport was a vast dome of clear, crystalline blue. Five years had passed since the ratification of the Montreal Hypersonic Protocol, and today, human travel was officially crossing the threshold into a new golden age. At Heathrow’s newly inaugurated Suborbital Terminal Four, international flags snapped crisply in the autumn breeze along the arrival concourse, while thousands of aviation enthusiasts and journalists crowded the observation…
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