Category: Personal Musings

• The End of an Era

  Today marked the final launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery. I admit I have mixed feelings about the shuttle program and human space flight in general. On the one hand, there is the allure of exploration, of adventure, of discovery not by proxy but personally; on the other, there is the huge extra expense, the…

  Matthew R. Francis

  February 25, 2011

  Astronomy, Physics, and Related Fields, Personal Musings