[jedberg]

> You may not know it, but you carry some of his words with you in your own earthly exploration, printed in every U.S. passport.

This whole article was fantastic, but this was the coolest part for me. To learn that his quote is on every passport. I've never read the quotes on my passport before, but now I have.

[blahedo]

I agree. It's on the biometric passports but not the previous generation, on p28 (and is abbreviated from the full quote printed in the article):

"Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds ... to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation." --Ellison S. Onizuka

The background on that page is a palm tree and a silhouette that might be Diamond Head, but the facing page is a space scene (not to scale) with an earthrise over the moon and a satellite.

[jedberg]

> but the facing page is a space scene (not to scale)

Sorry, but that made me laugh. Now I kinda want to see it to scale. :)

[rconti]

As much as I hate the ESPN sports complex, everything I've seen from the ESPN documentaries has been fantastic.

[awad]

What about the ESPN sports complex do you dislike?

[rconti]

Primarily the feedback loop of cable companies "having to" carry ESPN/ESPN2/etc at vastly higher rates than any other network on television, resulting in the ability to bid up TV rights for all major sporting events. As long as the rights are expensive, the network will be expensive, and vice versa.

I generally enjoy sports, but don't care about the endless commentary and talk shows that populate ESPN 24/7, nor do I like the fact that their properties drive up everyone's cable bill by $20-$30 per month, an order of magnitude more than any other network.

It's one of the primary reasons I don't have pay TV; I wish I could allocate my pay TV dollars to the programming I find more valuable.

[oska]

> This whole article was fantastic

I personally found the writing somewhat overwrought, despite thinking it's a story worth telling and feeling respect for the astronaut involved and sympathy for his family. I wouldn't call it good writing. But I'm not a US American, so maybe it's a cultural difference.

[giodamelio]

Exactly. That was a chills down the the spine moment.

I will definitely be taking a closer look at the quotes in my passport when I get home today.

[caseysoftware]

I just went and grabbed mine to check. It's there. That's badass.

[mercwear]

This was one of my favorite takeaways too