*Notice* - Shuttle service has ended...
At first, I was somewhat devasted by the news that the shuttle fleet was grounded indefinitely. There would be no return to space until 2010, when a new vehicle could be developed.
Hmmm...
The very shuttle flown, Columbia, launched on April 12, 1981. 1981? That was 24 years ago. I was 3. The whole shuttle program inception dates back to 1972... and Nixon! That was a generation ago...
1981? 1972? There were no cell phones, no home computers, no internet, no cell phones, no Microsoft, no MTV, no cell phones, no PDA's, no DVD's, no CD's, no cell phones, and a pocket calculator still cost upward of $20...
And that's just for us common folk.
Imagine the technological advances plausible for the scientific community. Imagine, given the brightest minds and the thirty-three years of technology that has unfolded since the program's inception in 1972, what can be created next.
Although we know 2010 will turn into 2015 or 2020, I say OK. I can wait. My curiosity has the best of me. Maybe I've watched too much Star Wars, but I say: NASA... Bring it on!
Hmmm...
The very shuttle flown, Columbia, launched on April 12, 1981. 1981? That was 24 years ago. I was 3. The whole shuttle program inception dates back to 1972... and Nixon! That was a generation ago...
1981? 1972? There were no cell phones, no home computers, no internet, no cell phones, no Microsoft, no MTV, no cell phones, no PDA's, no DVD's, no CD's, no cell phones, and a pocket calculator still cost upward of $20...
And that's just for us common folk.
Imagine the technological advances plausible for the scientific community. Imagine, given the brightest minds and the thirty-three years of technology that has unfolded since the program's inception in 1972, what can be created next.
Although we know 2010 will turn into 2015 or 2020, I say OK. I can wait. My curiosity has the best of me. Maybe I've watched too much Star Wars, but I say: NASA... Bring it on!
posted by Flipside at 5:06 PM
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