Forty years ago today, President Richard Nixon announced that the nation would build a reusable vehicle, that would be used to fly all of the nation’s payloads into space. It first flew a little less than a decade later, and flew its last flight last summer, after a little over thirty years of operations. We are only starting to recover from the policy disaster.
[Update late morning]
The Space Shuttle, in happier days (flyback booster, no SRBs, no ET).
Clark Lindsey has an overview of the past year.
…debunked.
The Canadian Senate actually pays attention to climate skeptics. Canada has a lot to fear from a return of the glaciers.
I have a preview up over at Popular Mechanics.
…the wrong ones.
…is bright, with the end of the Shuttle.
…billions may die. Sorry, when you believe wacky stuff, you don’t get points for earnestness.
I hope that the SCOTUS slaps down the Ninth Circuit. If could be a major blow for freedom.
How do you convince the twentieth generation of space colonists to leave earth?
[Update a few minutes later]
Slightly related: Charles Krauthammer wonders if we’re alone in the universe. I disagree with him, though, that politics is the driver of human history. Technology plays at least as large a role.