Courtesy of Robert Heinlein and Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Esav Benyamin

Esav Benyamin

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A Last Landing for Space Shuttle Endeavour

We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth.
Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies
And the cool, green hills .. .. .. of Earth.

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Thanks for that one.
 
That's so sad. I teared up a little bit.

Landing into the night is rather appropriate.

Thanks for the pic.
 
Thanks Esav!
I was at one of the original Columbia launches
Watched in horror the dirty mote that marked Challengers demise
Got to watch many more launches living in Florida
I took my 5 year old son to see this launch of Endeavor (missed the launch but saw it on the pad)
When Atlantis gets back it will be the end of a great journey.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
One more to go. :(
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We realize it's literally the end of an era ... in my profession.

Realize this. Very, very soon, America will no longer be able to put a man into space (without asking for Russian or Chinese help).

Just mind-boggling.
 
Hopefully .gov will step aside and let private enterprise have a shot at it. But its been almost 7 years since SpaceShip One took the Ansari X-prize and we haven't seen much else. From my standpoint the room for technical innovation is there but the regulators and tree-huggers have been making it not worth the effort. Come on DD Harriman.
 
Tunnel in the Sky. "Colonel Bowie" (his knife). "Lady Macbeth" (his sister's knife.) "Colonel Bowie" had a "21 cm blade of chrome moly alloy". Must have read that book a couple of dozen times in the 60's. I might still have my copy out in the garage.

If you go in for swords, try Heinlein's Glory Road.
 
Got me to check what's available for my Kindle: Tunnel, and a few other good ones, for reasonable prices. I should just dig the paperbacks out of storage.
 
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