“If you watch NASA backwards,” Thomas Fuchs joked on Twitter, “it’s about a space agency that has no spaceflight capability, then does low-orbit flights, then lands on moon.” Today our final shuttle, Atlantis, successfully launched from Cape Canaveral’s Kennedy Space Center. It’s the end of a journey. It is days like this that I am struck most forcibly by our conspicuous lack of flying cars. Read full article >>