kaddursal
02-24-2010, 07:50 PM
The Space Shuttle era is finally coming to an end forever this year.:cry: The last shuttle mission will take place this September.:cry:
The shuttle era has been going on for 29 years now. And perhaps people are getting bored with it now. By doing nothing but going up in to Earth's orbit all this time. And there probably hasn't been a full image photograph taken of the Planet Earth since the 1972 Apollo 17 Mission.
Too bad two of the shuttles Columbia, and Challenger have been destroyed and killing its astronauts on them. Columbia was the very first shuttle mission to be launched in 1981, and it was piloted by Astronaut John Young who was on the Apollo 16 Lunar Mission to the Moon. Actually, the first space shuttle that was born, was called "Enterprise." And Enterprise was doing testing in 1979. Two years before Columbia went up. The shuttle was actually invented by a a man named "Maxime Faget." He was really the designer for the Space Shuttle. But I heard he passed away 6 years ago. The idea for the Space Shuttle could have come out in 1970, or before that.
But I think that the shuttle is boring now. And we've only went to the Moon since December, 1972. And we've started only to have Earth's orbital missions. Starting with Skylab, and Apollo-Soyuz. And then the Space Shuttle. So we've been doing nothing, but having Earth orbital missions continuously since 1973. But that's because astronauts were all doing tests, and experiments on all of these missions. To see if people can be free to travel in space on their own someday. And to see if it would be safe for them.
But what about traveling to Mars? Is it reality during our lifetime? Or not? There was always talk about sending man to Mars in the year 2020 in the past. But it's probably just a sci-fi.
Well, it's time to say goodbye to the Space Shuttle forever this September. But we have to move on with new types of space vehicles. And new missions. And we'll we ever return to the Moon?
New space traveling, and space technology must go on!:cry::cry:
The shuttle era has been going on for 29 years now. And perhaps people are getting bored with it now. By doing nothing but going up in to Earth's orbit all this time. And there probably hasn't been a full image photograph taken of the Planet Earth since the 1972 Apollo 17 Mission.
Too bad two of the shuttles Columbia, and Challenger have been destroyed and killing its astronauts on them. Columbia was the very first shuttle mission to be launched in 1981, and it was piloted by Astronaut John Young who was on the Apollo 16 Lunar Mission to the Moon. Actually, the first space shuttle that was born, was called "Enterprise." And Enterprise was doing testing in 1979. Two years before Columbia went up. The shuttle was actually invented by a a man named "Maxime Faget." He was really the designer for the Space Shuttle. But I heard he passed away 6 years ago. The idea for the Space Shuttle could have come out in 1970, or before that.
But I think that the shuttle is boring now. And we've only went to the Moon since December, 1972. And we've started only to have Earth's orbital missions. Starting with Skylab, and Apollo-Soyuz. And then the Space Shuttle. So we've been doing nothing, but having Earth orbital missions continuously since 1973. But that's because astronauts were all doing tests, and experiments on all of these missions. To see if people can be free to travel in space on their own someday. And to see if it would be safe for them.
But what about traveling to Mars? Is it reality during our lifetime? Or not? There was always talk about sending man to Mars in the year 2020 in the past. But it's probably just a sci-fi.
Well, it's time to say goodbye to the Space Shuttle forever this September. But we have to move on with new types of space vehicles. And new missions. And we'll we ever return to the Moon?
New space traveling, and space technology must go on!:cry::cry: