Commentary

Leaving the Heavens Behind: What the End of the Space Shuttle Program Means for America’s Future

By Troy Senik
Wednesday, July 27 2011

“This is the way the world ends – not with a bang but with a whimper” – T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

What Eliot said of the world we can now say of our quest to journey beyond it. Man’s early endeavors beyond his own atmosphere were nothing if not a series of bangs: the call to arms of the USSR’s Sputnik launch; the redeeming triumph of the American moon landing aboard Apollo 11; the valiant stoicism of the nearly-doomed Apollo 13, and the visceral tragedy of the Challenger disaster.

It was, in short, what exploration…

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