- 2011
- Apr
- 28
The shuttle program counts down ’til the end
An Anonymous Reader submitted this noteworthy submission posted over at Scientific American. A passage reads:
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER–If I’d jumped, I could have touched the belly of the Discovery. Of course, I would have then been escorted unceremoniously from the Orbiter Processing Facility. But I was that close. What a strange mix of thrill and melancholy it was to see those heat-shield tiles, the swoop of the delta wing, and the snub nose wrapped in black. This was the spacecraft that launched the Hubble Space Telescope and made its last trip into space in February. Next year it’ll be off to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum , just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of. [More]
