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Whence NASA?
newsvine.com May 9, 2008
Bad Astronomy blog vents a bit in the vein of "Where's my flying car, dammit?!"To me, this drives home the reality of where we are in the manned exploration of space. We have an aging Shuttle fleet which has 11 flights left before retirement, and no working rocket to replace it.
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