Hi all –

Don’t know if any of you saw the wonderful Opinion piece in the NY Times today by Carolyn Porco, a planetary scientist working on the Cassini mission. It’s about what might have been had NASA’s Apollo program (and the Saturn V) continued uninterrupted from the 1960s, and a very hopeful vision of what the renewed NASA drive for the Moon (and later, Mars) could be in the first half of the 21^st Century.

I, for one, am very susceptible to this kind speculation about past and future (maybe that’s why I write SF).

I desperately hope this vision comes to pass.

Check it out: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/20/opinion/20porco.html

– S.