Lest we forget...

[kengr]

31 years ago on this date the *last* Apollo mission was launched.

And currently we'd need close to a decade to launch a similar mission.

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[kshandra]

So here's to Conestoga, Pegasus and Liberty
And all the rest who'll join us in the race
For we're proud of NASA's heroes, but we'd rather raise our glass
To those hard-nosed bloody bastards that will get us into space.

It's a wonderful number about the various private organizations trying to make space travel real. It's on Jordin's Fire In The Sky, which any self-respecting hard-science freak really should own. (It's apparently scheduled for re-release soon.)

[kengr]

Well, if it's a cassette, I won't be getting it. Too many old filk cassettes that I don't dare play any more. :-(

If it's a CD, that's a different story.

[kshandra]

With any luck, the re-release will be CD and tape both; the original came out before filk CDs were a common thing (indeed, I don't think I'd seen any filk on CD at that point).