QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"We've come full circle since 1961, back to when we had yet to show we
could launch people into space. We will be hitching rides from the
Russians to go to the space station that is mainly ours."
STEVEN J. DICK,
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/09/science/space/09wilford.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha3>
a retired NASA chief historian, on the last launching in the space
shuttle program.