Wednesday, March 16, 2011

The End and the beginning.

I will be moving my blogging activities to my new blog. "David's Wonder Blog" It will be basically what this blog has evolved into from the get go. Why I'm making this change? you ask. It's simply the fact that my comic's title Neuropsychosis makes for very leangthy urls and I've found that people don't like going to sites they have to type really long urls for. So come by every Friday to http://darroyoart.blogspot.com/ for David's wonder blog it's gonna be a good ride.

Wednesday, March 09, 2011

The beginning of the end.


Today, the space shuttle orbiter Discovery, landed for the final time. It's not the end of the STS program (it was supposed to be but it got wisely extended), but this landing makes the end of the shuttle a bit more real to me. You see while there have been a number of lasts for the shuttle program over the last few years, last trip to Hubble, last American component of the ISS, and last voyage of Atlantis (though Atlantis may go again). The Discovery hits me differently, because discovery is the most traveled member of the fleet. The current oldest orbiter, after the lost Columbia and Challenger, Discovery is the one for me that has always been there while I saw the rollouts of both Atlantis and Endevour. It was Discovery, which brought us as a nation back from the tragedies of of Challenger and Columbia, and it was discovery that delivered the Hubble space telescope, possibly the most important scientific instrument of the shuttle program, to space. As a space enthusiast all of my life, the end of the Space Shuttle program, without a replacement in sight, is a sad time for me. The space shuttle was and is kind of the Family car of my imagination, and seeing the one of which "we" where the most common passenger go off into the sunset to be placed in the mausoleum of a space museum makes this end so much more real.