Thursday, May 19, 2011

Featured Author and NPR Host Scott Simon Writes about the Space Shuttle Launch

NPR host and featured author Scott Simon ("Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption") wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal about watching Endeavour's last launch with his two daughters.

"After the last shuttle flies this year, U.S. astronauts will have to hitch rides on Russian rockets," he writes. "It's hard to see that as a step forward for the nation that sent the first men to walk on the moon—in fact, so far the only ones.

Read the full essay.

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