On Tuesday, the Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery took one last flight from Florida to Washington DC, where it will be placed in a museum. This event really put a big punctuation mark on America's ability to put humans in space. I was on The Alyona Show Tuesday to talk to her about what this means, and what's next for us. That interview is now online:
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I had to squeeze in a bunch of things there at the end, and I hope I didn't gloss over ideas too much. I said, for example, that nationalism is fine; but what I meant is that national pride is fine, and American citizens wanting our country to do what's best -- specifically, to explore space -- is fine by me. I do think that a key step in that is getting people educated and excited about space travel. Many, perhaps even most, ...
