The first question is very specific: “Is anyone on the list [of recently graduated recruits] being assigned here?” The next question is more general, and includes an air of devilish curiosity: “So, what’ve you heard about them?” It happens to everyone, I suppose. From our first few days in the Academy, stories began to compile and […]

“Damn, first they crashed two hunks of metal into the moon, and now they’re launching another rocket? Why in the hell is this worth spending money on? Going into space in the sixties and seventies didn’t do anything for us except make us proud that we beat the Russians, and it’s not going to do […]