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Article: The glamour of the Space Shuttle is its ordinariness.(The Week ...)(Brief Article)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- August 29, 2005
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The glamour of the Space Shuttle is its ordinariness. A shuttle is a thing that goes routinely back and forth, like the motion of a loom, or the hourly flights between LaGuardia and Ronald Reagan airports. The Space Shuttle, however, is the taxi of space: regularity in a realm where no man had ventured only 50 years ago. That is the theory, anyway. In fact, Space Shuttle flights are liable to endless ...