Monday, August 08, 2005

The space travellers will return.

NASA must be pretty sure they will, else they didn't send 7 people into space. As NASA waits for better wetter it seems they get free publicity and they only want to be sure of optimal conditions.
For most people this kind of travel is still beyond imagniation. Every news item will be consumed. When this morning the news came that the landing was postponed I heard it from a distance. It was like the shuttle crashed again. Immediately I turned on the radio but no news about the spaceshuttle.

Does anybody remember Skylab? It fell back down to earth in western Australia. There was one casualty, a cow. But was the end of Skylab. I remember it quite clear as the prediction were the unmanned craft could hit the ground in Europe.

Yesterday I wrote about robotics in the space exploration. Well, on the NASA site you can read about the next mission which sets off next Wednesday.

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