“After serving the world for over 30 years, the space shuttle’s earned its place in history. And it’s come to a final stop.”
In the pre-dawn hours in Florida, the Space Shuttle Atlantis came to a stop, ending a 30-year era of space travel for the United States.
The crew of four ended their historic mission forty-two years and one day after we first set foot on the moon.
The Shuttle’s Final Landing
Even the Daily Show couldn’t quite make fun of the shuttle’s final mission.
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No comments huh? Figured you kids would have something to say on the subject…
Gwynn Dyer has an interesting piece on the subject here, and the there’s Billy Bragg’s elegy:
It will be like the 1950’s. Little kids can once again say they’re going to be astronauts when they grow up, hoping there will be such a thing by then.