Tag: Space exploration

• Boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past

  (Title stolen from The Great Gatsby, but you all knew that.) This morning at about 6 AM Eastern time, Space Shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth, ending the shuttle program. Any regular readers of my blog know that I have mixed feelings about the Shuttle: like most people, I’m thrilled and proud to see the sheer…

  Matthew R. Francis

  July 21, 2011

  Society

  Space exploration