Golden Era Of NASA Ends By Jim Porter Casey • December 17, 2001 Editorials NASA Astronaut Buzz Aldrin discusses the X-33, while holding a scale model, during a press conference at the USSRC in 1999 during the 30th anniversary of the first moon landing. Mr. Aldrin poignantly stated that the X-33 couldn't fly because of it's design. Ultimately, it never did. Hollywood has also been too grateful to be critical. Just look at all those wonderful space films, and space monsters, and space crafts, and Star Trek, and aliens, and time warps, and macro scopes, and telescopes…
