Last flight of the Space Shuttle: a 30-year retrospective

I know there are a lot of these articles out there, but one look at the shuttle's legacy, both good and bad.

Frankly, if not for Vietnam and the Nixon admin pushing to keep manned flight in the public eye, we'd probably have done the whole Moon and Mars base thing by now. That's not even really a criticism, just how things went.

Oh well, maybe we can thing bigger than how not to pay taxes and still get government benefits. But we're going to need to change a lot of the dialog to do it.