“If you watch NASA backwards,” Thomas Fuchs joked on Twitter, “it’s about a space agency that has no spaceflight capability, then does low-orbit flights, then lands on moon.”
Today our final shuttle, Atlantis, successfully launched from Cape Canaveral’s Kennedy Space Center. It’s the end of a journey.
It is days like this that I am struck most forcibly by our conspicuous lack of flying cars.
Just think, we were driving electric vehicles around and whacking golf balls on the lunar surface almost 40 years ago. What happened? To read the rest of the article, click here.