№ CCXLIX - Raoul Wallenberg (1912-1947), Righteous among the Nations.
Pray pardon my boosterism if it seems unseemly, but I cannot resist mentioning that Wallenberg was a University of Michigan Wolverine.
The Stars My Destination
More good news from President Obama's plan to make U.S. manned spaceflight entirely dependent upon Russian rockets: that part of the Soyuz-U rocket that failed yesterday, resulting in the destruction of an unmanned Progress cargo hauler, is exactly the same as in the Soyuz-FG rocket that carries the manned Soyuz capsule. The Soyuz-U & Soyuz-FG are two-thirds different, but the part that failed is the one-third they share. The Soyuz rocket fleet has been grounded pending an investigation, meaning there is absolutely no way to reach the six astronauts/cosmonauts currently manning the International Space Station: Marooned-link. Believe it or not, no matter how horrified you might be, everything is going according to plan. This American impotence? This reliance on the clearly reliable Russians? That is the plan. That was always the plan. Things are going according to plan.
"Nobody panics when things go 'according to plan.' Even if the plan is horrifying."
The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
The Pogues, "If I Should Fall from Grace with God" from The Very Best of The Pogues (T.L.A.M.)
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