This Space for Rent

Not with a bang (thank goodness) and hopefully not with a whimper.

Atlantis takes off for the last time
Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls,July 8, 2011

Perhaps some time in the future, after the parasitic classes have been aggressively pruned away, the United States (or some successor state) will send humans into orbit again. As for right now, there’s always Russia to keep lifting the torch out of our atmosphere.