Voyagers

I was going to write a post on Voyager 2′s encounter with Neptune, which took place 23 years ago today, but it seems there’s a sadder milestone tonight.

There is little I can say of Neil Armstrong’s life that the world’s press hasn’t already said. He was both an ordinary American and an extraordinary one, a man who served his country, was chosen for an epochal task and performed it with skill, grace and a quiet dignity that lasted the rest of a long life. He lived eighty-two years upon the Ear...