HERE’S MORE ON INDIA’S MOURNING for Kalpana Chawla.

My reaction, echoing a comment I saw on someone’s blog somewhere, is that this is a classic American story: from immigrant to astronaut in one decade. And people are hardly even paying attention to that angle because it just seems, well, normal. Of course you can move here, work hard, and if you’re good enough, become an astronaut! Of course.