A Depressing Anniversary
Doug Messier notes that it’s been a quarter of a century since Ronald Reagan called on NASA to put up a space station within a decade.
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Rand Simberg: just a recovering aerospace engineer.
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:46 am
Hmmm, I guess finishing said station requires a second presidential vision.
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Good luck with that. The vision thing, I mean.
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:43 pm
More perspective: When Reagan made his call, human spaceflight was less than 25 years old.
NASA has been building the space station for more than half of the space age.