Operation AXIOM | The Stars My Destination
Fifty years ago to the day, 20 February 1962, John Glenn became the third American in space & the first to orbit the Earth aboard the Mercury capsule Friendship 7: B.B.C.-link & Wikipedia-link. I've had the privilege & supreme joy of seeing the Friendship 7 in her place of honor at the National Air & Space Museum, the Valhalla of American aviation & astronautics. We have faltered & lost our way, but we had heroes willing to sunder the veil of the heavens once, & we shall have them again. "Godspeed, John Glenn!"

Science!
Sweet fancy Moses: 28,000 B.C.-link! If all goes well ("well" in this case meaning the growth of more long-preserved plants, a true bumper crop of sweet, sweet abominations), soon botanical gardens will be able to steal the clichéd tagline so long abused by history museums: "Where the past comes alive!"

Science!