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The Shuttle in Culture

By Robert H Olley | July 25th 2011 09:25 AM | Print | E-mail

Robert H Olley

My immediate feeling as Shuttle Atlantis touched down safely was one of relief.

But now that all the post-facto analysis have started, with maybe some recrimination, let me entertain you all with one way in which the Shuttle has entered British Culture.

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