MELVILL'S AGE IRONY

Three cheers for America's first private- enterprise (non-NASA) astronaut, SpaceShipOne pilot Michael Melvill, and the team that launched him into space. I find it ironic, though, that Patricia Grace Smith, the FAA associate administrator for space transportation, who witnessed the event, was most...

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