Welcome to another Link-Friday. It’s been a while and some of my links are a little dated but hopefully they’ll bring you some enlightenment or enjoyment. With that disclaimer in place, here’s this week’s links.
Our first link is bitter-sweet. I am a huge fan of America’s space program. I have been EXTREMELY upset ever since President Obama canceled the human space program when he first entered office. (Granted, he did a little back pedaling and chose to reinstate some of it when the political backlash – Florida’s electoral votes come in pretty handy – seemed to become quite severe.) I won’t lie: I was looking forward to President Bush’s plan to return to the moon. I was way too young to remember the last time we went to the moon and I really was looking forward to us going back while my children were still young enough that it might inspire them and their career path. But, enough nostalgic ramblings… Oh, wait… Everything about this link is a nostalgic rambling. Anyway, Space Shuttle Discovery was turned over to the National Air and Space Museum this week. Here’s a link to the blow-by-blow account of the gutting and destruction of Discovery so that she will never be able to fly ever again. Every time I hear of a beautiful flying machine that is intentionally injured in such a way that it won’t fly again it really hurts my heart – especially when the ship has many years of life left in her.
