Editorial - Light this candle!

Its great to have this feeling back. The feeling from a time when americans would "just do it". A time when concerns about safety would be present, but so would the will to go places and do things. How can we forget the famous sentence from the first american astronaut, Allan Shepard, that after waiting for more than three hours inside his capsule, Freedom 7, shouted: "Why don't you just fix your little problem and light this candle?"
Good, old, politically incorrect, non-terrorist, non-country invading, non-plane crashing, non-deficit raising, non-trillion dollar military spending, non-drop-scientific-marvel-into-ocean, non-man-going-to-moon/mars instead of safer/cheaper robotic missions days...
But today I felt this whiff of fresh air. Just like the oxygen that dried the pee from Shepard's undergarment. Today I read that Nasa's new Administrator Michael Griffin said what all (most) of us have been waiting and fighting for: "We're going to bet a little bit that WE CAN DO the servicing mission(...)". Now, that's an american talking!
Go for it Dr. Griffin! Light this candle!

Fernando Ribeiro - SavetheHubble.com
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