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Stop and think about it -- SPACE IS AWESOME
I was a child of the sixties. It was always my assumption that I would travel into space -- eventually. The Challenger disaster set the space program back years, maybe decades. We surely would have been closer to Kubrick's movie vision of 2001 had that horrible accident not occurred. And in 2003, the Columbia... I was just sick to hear about it. It was sad to see how routine the space missions were until it blew up.
The Big Picture
We should never forsake the poor, downtrodden or hungry of this world, but as well we cannot ignore the questions not known, the concept that rends us into equals, that lulls us to ponder outward, beyond the known to the stars. NASA has a Public Relations problem, because even I don't feel too "connected" with their program, though I am a proponent. I think it's wonderful that many nations are pitching in for the space station. At right are two NASA links to the Space Station goings-on right now. When completed the World Space Station will be the second brightest object in the sky.
-Mark
I believe that everything about space is intriguing. It's our heritage, so to speak. I love shooting stars/comets, the rotation and relationships of the moons and planets. Aren't you in awe of stars, quasars, galaxies? One of my favorite visions of heaven has us wandering the vast universe witnessing the magnificent phenomenom of celestial confluence.
My friend Rob is beyond wondering if "they're here", he wants first names. He claims that while in orbit, our astronauts are seeing things we don't hear about, such as recorded in this visitation site during the "tether incident" (please click pulsing graphic).
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