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A Special Report.


"America's Re entry Into Space"


Here, from STSpace Control at The Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is ST Chief Science Editor: Connie Chung.



CC: Good morning, we are hours away from America’s reentry into space.
The Space Shuttle Discovery is poised on the launch pad to reclaim space for America, as later today it will climb into the heavens, for the first time since Apollo 13 crashed into the moon, that fateful day in 1963 in Dallas.
Joining me now is ST Junior Science Editor, Jim Farris.
Good morning Jim.


JF: Good morning Connie.



CC: Jim, America’s quest for the air has always been racked with peril, hasn’t it?


JF: Yes Connie, it has. Going back to the Wright Brothers and the invention of light bulb right threw our disastrous Hindenburg crash that started World War II, The United States has always brought death and destruction to the stars. Then in the era of flower children, pot, and love beads, the tumultuous 70’s, President Ford vowed we would put a man on the moon and keep him there. If only it would have been that easy.



CC: Yes, but that was the era of magnificence in space, why the names alone bring to mind soaring in the clouds, Mercury, the God of thermometers, Zeus, the Lord of The Sun, Gemini, the astral twins, and Apollo, God of Galactica.


JF: Yes Connie we did soar. But then the economic reality of moon rocks and pop rocks, the swinging 80’s happen, and America was thrust into the cosmic millennia when the Space Shuttle arrived.



CC: America’s work horse of the skies, the Shuttle, which ran flawlessly except for exploding on lift off and disintegrating on re entry. America’s news channel: the Shuttle. Which, later today will mark America’s re entry into the space race with the Russians.


JF: Yes Connie, in a mere few hours, at 3:51 pm eastern time, America will triumphantly return to Outer Space with a supply mission to the International Space Station, named for a famous Pancake Restaurant , the Space Station has been the home for Astronauts, Cosmonauts, Isrealinauts, and, for a short time in the 60’s, Jason And The Argonauts.



CC: And we will be there, for this historic moment in history when we can once again point to the stars and moon and say: “We no longer have an interest, but will be taking toilet paper to replenish hardware.”
Stay with us here at ST for another page of forgettable history or a postponement .
I’m Connie Skywalker, with Princess Lea, saying stay with us.

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