Tag: Space exploration

• Space Exploration is Not Over

  Tomorrow, the final Space Shuttle launch is scheduled. As I’ve written before, I have mixed feelings about the Shuttle: on the one hand, it’s an overly-expensive, antiquated system whose maintenance has helped prevent development of better ways to get people into space; on the other, it has captured the public’s interest, and helped advance science…

  Matthew R. Francis

  July 7, 2011

  Astronomy, Personal Musings

  Astronomy, Space exploration