Letters: Feb. 2, 1981

To the Editors:

With the launching of the space shuttle this year [Jan. 12], Americans will once again be migrating to a new frontier. As in California more than a century ago, the colonization of space offers the same hope for new resources, new industry and a renewed sense of national spirit.

William N. Ellis Huron, Ohio

When you described the space shuttle, you were blind to its most poetic resemblance. It looks like the Taj Mahal.

Leslie Riley Cannon Cincinnati

Some people loudly object to NASA and the shuttle, saying the money should be spent elsewhere. From the beginning of the manned space program...

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