The Awesomeness of NASA

I've been fascinated by astronomy since I was a little girl. I always admired NASA because it did incredible things-- although I never wanted to work there because I like theoretical rather than engineering problems. But NASA is amazing, and not just for astronomy. The type of development that they do for materials that work in space has a real world impact. A recent New York Times article spelled out some of their recent work.

I just thought, since the political world continually talks about slashing spending, I would just post this article as a reminder of some of the things NASA has done recently.