Last week, astronauts on the International Space Station got to handle original handwritten manuscripts of novels by Jules Verne. The manuscripts were delivered there by a robot spaceship from Europe, itself called the Jules Verne. The manuscripts are meant to come back to Earth at some point, rather than burn up on re-entry as the ship will do.

I didn't realize how jaded I was about the existence of space travel in our time until I saw that Wikipedia has a banner template for articles about in-progress spaceflights. In other words, there are enough in-progress spaceflights over time to make it worthwhile to design a special banner warning people that the article might change during the mission.

Guys, we're sending handwritten 19th-century books into space with robots. That deserves a what-what. (Jetpacks still to come, of course.)