“In his gloomy Washington Post commentary today on yesterday’s ceremony transferring ownership of the Space Shuttle Discovery from NASA to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Charles Krauthammer urged readers to think of that transfer as the funeral for U.S. leadership in space. Nothing could be further from the truth…
Our Shuttle program was an historic achievement, but an even brighter future is on the horizon. Make no mistake about it - the future in space is happening right now, and it is being built right here in America.
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Read the full commentary by Charles Bolden, Administrator of NASA, and Dr. John P. Holdren, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy:
NASA Reaching for New Heights
ODE TO THE NIMRUD
How amazing is it that a simple lens can warp the vast magnitude of the universe, bazillions of light years long and wide and deep, stealing its light, like a black hole steals energy and mass, spitting it out on the flip side in a whirlwind of reconstructed particles, delivering it to us in a size that is smaller than ourselves, the plain and accessible size of a monitor or photographic print or telescope eyepiece, and thereby bring it all down to an eye-catching user-friendly scale that we, grounded here on earth, can actually comprehend?
- by Laura
