Another Great Leap Backwards

They can park it next to a Concorde for scale. GWB and his hollow promise to go back to Mars... whatta joke. I seriously think there's a denial of technology going on. Look around your kitchen and tell me which appliance wouldn't have existed in 1965. Jet-packs? They don't want people breaking in on the 30th floor! Either its deliberate or the casino called the "finance market" has successfully sucked up all investment dollars for the last 30 years.

Farewell, Sweet Space Shuttle Endeavour

By Annalee Newitz, 5:17 PM on Wed Dec 10 2008, 2,265 views

The space shuttle Endeavour hitched a ride on the back of NASA's special Shuttle Carrier Aircraft today, crossing the country to its normal hangar in Florida. Endeavour is the youngest of the five space shuttles built, and it is due to be decommissioned in 2010 along with its two remaining siblings, Discovery and Atlantis.