Earlier today, the Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104) became the first of
the five ship fleet to complete its tour of duty successfully, landing
after its 32nd mission. Atlantis will actually be prepped for flight
once more to serve as a possible rescue craft in support of
Discovery's last flight of the program this November. There's a notion
floating around to use those components to fly one more ISS supply
mission with Atlantis in early 2011. She'd fly with a crew of four so
they could be returned more easily by Soyuz capsules in case of a
problem. So, she's not done yet. Maybe.

In 25 years of service, if my math's right, Atlantis flew over 120
million miles during approximately 290 days on orbit, essentially a
round trip to Mars. Amazing.

From the email: Holley sent electrons to me which, when unscrambled,
revealed the New York Times has a science fiction/fantasy reviewer,
who the article says, might actually /like/ the genre. See it here:
http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/genreville/?p=381 .