This week, television news organizations have been documenting the "last flight" of space shuttle Endeavour as it was being delivered from Florida to its final home at a science center in California. Newspeople also like to play historian, and they see this delivery as the end of an era.
The irony is, of course, that through most of the shuttle era, the mainstream media ignored most shuttle flights and rarely mentioned overall space policy. Television news loves arresting video, though, and a space shuttle flying atop a 747 is certainly that. Also, we'll probably never see it again-- the history angle.
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