The Space Shuttle Discovery landed perfectly today in Florida. This is a huge sigh of relief for everyone watching and certaily for NASA. A lot of talks about scrapping the shuttle program with 16 more missions for the International Space Station are still pending. A lot of political banter surround whether government funding should be cut off completely for the space program.
I realize it may be difficult for some to see the full benefit of the space program. We spend a great deal of tax dollars every year while some would claim the money could be better spent on feeding homeless people or some other nonsense. I think what many fail to see is that our space program is a not just a tribute to us as a nation but a tribute to the purest sense of what mankind can accomplish through innovation.
Hat tip to the Discovery crew for bringin’ it home!
I realize it may be difficult for some to see the full benefit of the space program. We spend a great deal of tax dollars every year while some would claim the money could be better spent on feeding homeless people or some other nonsense. I think what many fail to see is that our space program is a not just a tribute to us as a nation but a tribute to the purest sense of what mankind can accomplish through innovation.
Hat tip to the Discovery crew for bringin’ it home!
