The shuttle Atlantis left the International Space Station on Monday and headed home for a planned Wednesday landing, clearing the way for a Defense Department effort to shoot down a failed spy satellite.
Um, why?
Why does Atlantis have to be out of outer space before the Defense Department has to shoot down a satellite?
I mean — space, as Douglas Adams would say, is very very big. And if there’s a chance that the missile might miss and hit the Atlantis space shuttle, isn’t there a chance that the missile might miss and hit, say, the Triad?
Just wondering out loud….