As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut — until Challenger, and then my mom said I couldn’t be an astronaut. So instead of being a space explorer, I turned into a space scholar. Instead of lionizing John Glenn, or Sally Ride, I looked to Carl Sagan as a role model.
Thing is, we still have room for both kinds of heroes in this country. We just need the willpower, and the budget priorities, to make it happen.
Little Willie mode a slip While londing in his rocket ship. See that bright actinic qlare? Thut’s our little Willie there.
[About as close as the Newton has come to a perfect translation. Found this one in a paperback “Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction” anthology I picked up at a yard sale.]
