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Jerry Pournelle : No More Spacefaring Nation
The Final Shuttle Launch for Friday has been cancelled, but it’s still the end of an era. Actually it’s the end of several eras, particularly the America as a space-faring nation era inaugurated by John Kennedy. The twist is that Shuttle killed space-faring.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-07-08
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