"The Chinese are going to the moon and they'll plant their flag up there and bring ours back down and put it on eBay."-- Ray Trapp, a longtime driver of the space shuttle's mobile launch platform, quoted in Air & Space magazine. Trapp was one of 14 people profiled in an article on the impact of the shuttle's retirement on Florida's Space Coast.
(Photo of Chinese taikonaut Zhai Zhigang's spacewalk during the 2008 Shenzhou-7 space mission.)
