[HP8753]

Position of spacecraft escaping Solar System"

[No2much3]

It is nice to see that what the engineers and astrophysicists built and launched back in the 1970's are still proving that science can do something right.

On a different topic I remember my father who was in the business back then referred to the plans for the space shuttle as the *flying brick*. He already had told me in the mid 70's that the shuttle would have major problems with the thermal tiles so it does not surprise me that Columbia went down. Unfortunately people had to die for the vanity of others.