Last Atlantis…

I watched the last shuttle launch this morning,  just as I have watched all the others.  The headline is that a liberal president took America into space,  and  a progressive one has chained us here.

The L.A. Times has a view on  the last launch,  and USA Today  is already predicting we’ll be  back in  the stars.

Not  a bad look   for a last leaving…

Shuttle in the sun…

This is a stunning photograph.   It was taken in Florida by an amateur astronomer,  Thierry Legault,  an engineer already famed for his pictures of space shot from his yard in Paris.

It also happens to be the first ever image of a solar transit of a space shuttle and Hubble Space Telescope.   It’s hard to realize that Hubble is 19 years old,  and that this probably really will be its last repair.