Bring it down! For crying out loud!!! Sorry… but all this overreacted attention for the Space Shuttle is getting a bit to me at the moment. It’s just to much. But I expect a conspiracy theory for this! I think it’s just a cry for attention… or cry… I think NASA just likes all the attention they are getting at the moment. The longer it takes, the more attention. And attention is good. People are aware again of space travel and they will need that attention and a lot of money as we have to go to Mars soon! Only god knows why we have to waste time and money on that as, as far as we know, there is nothing out there… except a dusty rock and maybe some ice… so why spend so much money to go walk on a planet… Strange… There must be much better things they could use that money for… Maybe to help out some hungry people in Africa?

The best example I heard was by a comedian whose name I can’t remember… he said: “They go into space to test how lettuce grows there. But I can see from here that no lettuce will ever grow on the moon!” :-) Ah well, it must be good for something one would think…

I personally fail to see what the big news is for things like the Space Shuttle successfully detaching from the International Space Station… Ok, I do understand the exciting moments when it comes back through the atmosphere and hopefully it won’t go as wrong as last time, but why do we have to keep postponing this return to earth?! They say because of the bad weather at Cape Canaveral… it’s a bit cloudy… that isn’t a real vote of confidence in the pilot of the Space shuttle if you ask me… He can’t land it with a bit cloudy sky?!?! I thought you had to be quite talented to be an astronaut… He should be able to land it in a thunderstorm with one arm and poor vision in both eyes! But now I expect they get the pilots the normal airlines don’t want! “Sorry you ain’t good enough for us, but try with NASA, they only land when it’s sunny!”… And they seriously think some loose material on the heat shield is their biggest problem! :-)

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