NASA
Yes, I know it cost a fortune when so many people on Earth have little or nothing, but like Bill Hicks once said if we stopped spending all those billions on weapons of mass destruction we could both feed the planet and travel together to the stars, right?
Brian Eno - 'Always Returning' (1983)
[More amazing pictures here]
you know that's just what i was thinking (and trying to write - see later)
ReplyDeletelook to the stars my friend and feel your heart swell
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ReplyDeleteWe were having a science lesson at the time and Ye Olde School Telly - in a bespoke snug-fit pine cupboard with extended legs and wheels at the bottom - was rolled in so we could watch the shuttle blast off (or land I can't remember which) Incredible though, whichever one it was..
ReplyDeleteSame here. We were allowed to watch in The TV Room. I was not quite 16 years old.
ReplyDeleteI have immense admiration for the nutters who went up in those things.
ReplyDeleteIt feels like, I don't know how to explain it but that we are going backwards rather the boldly going etc.
When I lived in Florida we could sometimes see it in the sky from our office window, even though we were in Tampa.
ReplyDeleteI went to a launch once but it was stopped 30 seconds before take off because of weather. Bloody useless thing, a little rain and it couldn't fly. Bit like a British Rail train in that respect.
Though not, to be fair, in any other.
ReplyDeleteI remember the whole school watching the first launch on a telly in the dining room. I'm sure we'll all live to see a Mars landing. It might be the Chinese but that doesn't matter really, does it?
ReplyDeleteNo Artog, it really doesn't matter who does it as long as somebody does.
ReplyDeleteIf you haven't read it - tuck into Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff. It makes Apollo, shuttles and spacewalks all the more mind-frying..
ReplyDeleteAnd that book about the moonwalkers from a years ago. The name escapes me but it's dead good.
ReplyDeleteProbes my thought processes reminding me that I'm still an insignificant little wretch.
ReplyDeleteMind, I struggle to survive on planet earth, let alone another lickle star.
Innit.
ReplyDelete'Moondust' SA - 1p from Amazon.
Monndust, that's it. 1p? Bargain.
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