The end of the Space Age – Inner space is useful. Outer space is history http://www.economist.com/node/18897425
An Elegy for the Age of Space http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2011/08/elegy-for-age-of-space.html
Why Not Space? http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/10/why-not-space/ Cf. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/18/2258237/space-is-not-the-place-says-professor
