Racing For the Stars
You need only look up to see it, but space—that is, the potentially infinite blackness overhead—is perhaps best experienced by closing one’s eyes. For the moment, there’s not a tremendous amount of distance between the imagination and the relatively few realities we’ve discovered “up there.” Less certain is how our next round of discoveries will be made; the Shuttle program is ending this year, the most recent NASA mission has been scrubbed and a new plan is just now starting to take shape. But we are still making strides, and many of them were little more than dreams themselves just a few years ago.
