Because of a lack of Keynesian ideas, the President's Science Advisory Committee does not recommend in 1958 the establishment of NASA as in OTL. In 1961, Yuri Gagarin demonstrates that manned spaceflight is possible. Through the 1960's a number of companies and organizations with the goal of space travel are founded and grow. President Proxmire does not involve the United States government in the nascent space industry. John Glenn returns from space to found a company to provide space tourism to the super-rich (of whom there are more as a result of the Kennedy tax cuts)