…Neil Armstrong, dead at 82. So ends an era.
I suppose we can look at the closing of an era in 2 ways. Either an end of something awesome, or the next phase of awesome. Americans fly to ISS on Soviet-era rockets. But private industry is picking up the slack (will they use their powers for good or for awesome?), and we just landed something the size of a mini-cooper on the red planet. So I guess the jury is still out.
