Science: Space Shuttle: Ground control to Major Tom ... have you got your helmet on? ... Hoping for your soon & safe return

[Click the title above for a good picture of the crew in the shuttle, News.com.au, August 8, 2005.]

Yes, Shuttlenauts, we're rootin' for you all! Come back safe and sound, we pray. Your escapades have amazed us. And ain't that Canada-made robotic-arm the cat's meow? - and how! - Owlb and all the gang at refWrite and all our readers.

Shuttle woes threaten future of space station, SwissInfo, August 6, 2005.

Backgrounder on NASA Space Shuttle Program: A Rocket To Nowhere, by Maciel Ceglowski, Idle Words blog, August 3, 2005. Hat Tip to Jason Kottke.