Space exploration and the elusive ‘wow factor’
By Derrick Z. Jackson | Tuesday, May 12, 2009 | The Boston Globe
“…Even though the space shuttle fleet has been given a pink slip, yesterday’s launch of the space shuttle Atlantis to repair the Hubble Space Telescope is enough to forget for a moment all that plagues us. The astronauts will look down upon a planet from which they cannot detect war, pollution, fraud, or swine flu. They will attempt to repair that amazing machine that got off to a miserable, defective start, but now has given us images that both expands our knowledge of the universe and moves us to consider our utter insignificance in it….”…BS
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