Just one of those days, alas. Back tomorrow with a post on mercury mining in Kyrgyzstan; ’til then, bone up on the history of China’s space shuttle, one of my favorite pieces of aeronautic vaporware.
Entries Tagged as 'Space Shuttle'
Rabbit in the Moon
February 28th, 2011 · Comments Off on Rabbit in the Moon
Tags:China·space·Space Shuttle
The Money Pit
February 24th, 2011 · 4 Comments
Back in 1985 or thereabouts, I made the worst business decision of my life: I traded all of my Star Wars action figures to a classmate, in exchange for a Fisher-Price Space Shuttle that made “beep beep” noises when a rubber buttons was depressed. To my credit, I realized within a matter of days that […]
Tags:1980s·economics·NASA·space·Space Shuttle
