Shuttle Discovery rides piggyback into posterity - Technology & science - Space - msnbc.com

Shuttle Discovery rides piggyback into posterity - Technology & science - Space - msnbc.com:

I came of age with the Space Age, a freshman at Cal Tech when the Russians launched Sputnik and the race was on. So I felt sadness today with the formal landing of our space program for the immediate future, which feels like abandoning a vision, which feels like giving up, quitting. I'd rather feel that sense of change with the abandoning of our self-appointed policing of the world. Let's abandon the bully in us, not the imaginative visionary going into space.