The shuttle to honour its commitment as part of the international Space Station. For that mission we did space walks to practise repairing tile outside, to repair the leading edge of the wing, the reinforced carboncarbon. We developed techniques to make sure that we had the ability to repair the Space Shuttle if we find another hole in the wing or the tile. Atlantis, welcome to the international Space Station for the last time. The shuttle had at long last served its purpose, in building the Space Station. But, as time went on, it was evident it was time to move onto something else. And frankly something with a fundamental redesign. Having fired the imagination of a generation, its place in history secured,
Diodorus Siculus’ myth of Myrina the Amazon Queen, believed to have been set against a backdrop of Libya, could have been historically set in Asia Minor.