She just touched down at Dulles, on her way to her new home at the Air and Space Annex. I watched the live feed - I meant to go over for to see it but time got away from me this morning. For the first time I can remember, I regretted not being at the office in Silver Spring: they got a good look during the fly by.
I remember not being in space. And now it's so common that we forget when we have a crew on the space station. When Columbia launched in 1981, it was Star Trek, Heinlein, Bradbury, and Asimov all at once, the dreams of a kid whose sci-fi reading started with The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet coming true.
We'll go back into space in a serious way - humans have too much of a drive to explore to retreat from that challenge for long. I hope to see us on Mars before my dreaming ends, and I think that's a possibility.
And I'm thinking of running down on Thursday for a look - Enterprise and Discovery will be sitting nose to nose for the day.
I wouldn't be able to visit them now without crying like a baby. What has happened to our space program is a national disgrace.
ReplyDelete@Rev - I was crying as she landed. What has happened is massively short sighted. And completely contrary to our nature. Which is why I think it won't last.
ReplyDeleteIt breaks my heart to see our space program becoming muslim out reach.
ReplyDeleteWe used to have a space program. But then the stupid people and the racists teamed up to elect Obama. Elections definitely have consequences.
ReplyDeleteAmen! By the way, I still own a copy of The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet. It was a great story.
ReplyDeleteI'm on the road again tomorrow, please DO and take pics!!! :-)
ReplyDelete@Rick & ML - Yeah, I had a strange and apparently misguided idea that it was a science agency. Silly me.
ReplyDelete@Jon - Wow! I was just out searching catalogs to see if I could get a copy from a library!
@NFO - If I can get down there I will be taking pics for sure.