You'll see below that I had posted a batch of links stored up from the week early this morning. Then I closed the blog to head out to a nephew's birthday party, and clicked quickly over to Instapundit.

I found this post, still fresh. It's been updated repeatedly, with some wondrous stuff, including a moving speech written by William Safire for Nixon to give in the event that the Appollo 11 astronauts couldn't get back from the moon. Also, don't fail to check out Rand Simberg, the leading spaceblogger and an often insightful all-around commentator. He and Reynolds are the guys to read on this story.