fall 1979<\/a>, so more or less at the same time as the other news event I was vaguely aware of, but didn\u2019t particularly understand, the Iran hostage crisis.)<\/p>\nAnd at the same time, it\u2019s been wall-to-wall Moon Landing coverage, for the sake of its 50th anniversary.<\/p>\n
And, what\u2019s more, as part of the non-bloggable family stuff, over Memorial Day weekend, we made a trip back to Mom and Dad\u2019s house that we\u2019re getting ready to put on the market, for a final clean-out, and we brought back a bunch of old papers, including a few boxes of things in my old closet, and in a box were some newspapers that I had saved from, well, ages ago.<\/p>\n
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Yes, I had saved not just the front page but the whole front section of the Detroit News<\/em> for April 15, 1981, reporting on the landing of the space shuttle Columbia.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/533\/2019\/07\/Columbia-2-684x1024.jpg\")
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I had also saved the sports section because its back page had more photos.<\/p>\n
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In addition, the Detroit News<\/em> is (or was at the time) an evening paper delivered by traditional paperboys after school.\u00a0 But I had managed to acquire the morning edition as well.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/533\/2019\/07\/Columbia-4-704x1024.jpg\")
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And I had acquired a Detroit Free Press<\/em> as well.\u00a0 (As Detroiters would know, the Detroit News<\/em> is the traditionally conservative and the Detroit Free Press<\/em> the traditionally liberal paper.)\u00a0 Holy moly, would\u2019ja look at the tuition hike graphic?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/533\/2019\/07\/Columbia-5-684x1024.jpg\")
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And the New York Times<\/em>?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how I acquired it.\u00a0 Did Dad bring it home?\u00a0 Did the local party store (it\u2019s a Michigan thing) have newspapers and I bought one?<\/p>\nClearly, these were all about the landing, not the take-off of the space shuttle, so maybe the launch had captured my attention, but too late to have saved newspapers, and the landing was known so maybe I was prepared to get (or ask Dad to get) these papers.<\/p>\n
And I wish I had kept a full newspaper rather than just the news section (and wish the same regarding the 9\/11 newspapers we kept before we knew that newspapers as we knew them would disappear).<\/p>\n
But there it is: I was inspired enough by the promise of a new era of space exploration to have kept these papers, and find myself wondering, what inspires people in the year 2019?\u00a0 And yet, how meaningful is \u201cinspiration,\u201d anyway, given that I didn\u2019t pursue a career in any sort of science-y field and only just periodically whined that it\u2019s a disappointment that it\u2019s been so long since humans have landed on the moon, let alone a planet, that I have no memories of it.<\/p>\n
So there you have it.\u00a0 What do you remember, and what do you think about our future (or lack thereof) in space?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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