Comic: Space
The last shuttle
The last shuttle flight marks the end of an era of space exploration, and deserves commemoration.
A tower "fly by" is unfortunately aeronautically impossible, as the shuttle is little more than enormous, headed-for-the-Smithsonian glider after it enters the earth's atmosphere. No power for a go-around.
Not to mention that NASA doesn't hand over space shuttles to the sorts of pilots who would make unauthorized high-speed passes over air control towers... and admirals' daughters.
Roberto De Vido is a communications consultant, writer, cartoonist and jack of many trades. The former chief of Tucson Sentinel’s East Asia Bureau, he now lives in California (make of that what you will).
