Human Space Flight

Currently, the Space Shuttle Endeavor is docked to the ISS. I love to get caught up in watching the missions on NASA TV and catch glimpses of the world speeding by below them. To see the space station in the night sky, there's a cool applet that will calculate when and where to look to see the ISS pass overhead. Very cool.

I get so enthralled, because I still believe my Dad's prophecy that tourist space travel will be available in my lifetime. I know that $20 million could get you a trip right now, as Dennis Tito did and Lance Bass tried to do. Although, I could apply to be an astronaut, I think being a tourist is the best way to get there. But I don't have $20 million to go. But $20 million was 10% of Dennis' worth, and I think I would be willing to part with that much in order to get to see the earth glow night, and the glowing blue of the oceans in the sun.

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