Return to Space

| July 26, 2005

Today might be a good day to remember the courage it takes to board a spacecraft… any spacecraft. If you’ve never read Bill Whittle’s eulogy for the Columbia astronauts, read Courage. If you have read it, do so again. It may just be the single finest piece of writing ever published on the web.

Fireworks for the Fourth

| July 4, 2005

The impact portion of NASA’s Deep Impact cometary probe mission appears to be a complete success: “See what free men can do!” — Burt Rutan Lots more at Speed of Thought.