Earlier this morning, NPR had a segment on the final remaining space shuttle rides. I recalled how my high school friend, Srikumar, and I were excited to hear about a space shuttle program--yes, we were back in India, in a small town. It sounded absolutely beyond my imagination that there would be this spacecraft to take astronauts back and forth. All the more wild it was given that I hadn't seen the inside of an airplane up until then--actually, it was quite a few more years after all this that I actually stepped into an airplane.
Over the last few years, the US has not been able to figure out what its space policy ought to be. It was bizarre when in the middle of two wars, one day, President Bush jumped up and said that we are going to Mars. That sounded so hollow. And now President Obama's comments are far from encouraging when it comes to NASA and space exploration.
I suppose we need a Carl "billions and billions" Sagan to get us all pumped up .... Neil deGrasse Tyson does his part ...
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