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No excuse NOT to see Apollo 11, etc.
The Smithsonian has announced longer hours at their museums…including the National Air & Space Museum (NASM). You really must see Apollo 11, a Surveyor unmanned lunar lander, Friendship 7, and the backup Skylab. Because until at least labor day, NASM will be open 2 hours later…until 7:30 pm. Oh, and it’s free. But you do [...]
Sale on used space shuttles
Originally priced (for museums) at $42 million each, the retiring space shuttles are now available at the rock-bottom price of only $28,200,000.95. (Okay, the 95 cents at the end was my idea…) In any case, some lucky museums which successfully raise that kind of money will end up as owners and caretakers of Atlantis and [...]
Times Readers Defend NASA
In today’s New York Times, readers defend NASA against an op-ed charging that the agency is an irresponsible spendthrift. Perhaps the best line was from Robert Zubrin of the Mas Society. He noted that there were cost overruns for “the Panama Canal, the transcontinental railroad and almost everything else this country has ever done that [...]
