David Owen (a New York journalist) argues in Slate that the Space Shuttle is pretty useless. Mickey Kaus, also on Slate, notes that Richard Feynman’s 1986 estimate of mission failures on the order of a percent was about right. Hmm.
From the Heart of Europe
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Gah. I mean Silver On The Tree. Over Sea Under Stone is of course book 1.