I'd almost forgotten how infatuated I was with space flight as a kid. I guess some of that infatuation wore off with shuttles disintigrating. Though that's always been a risk of spaceflight, so I don't know exactly why that would make me look the other way. But here I am, watching the recent Columbia liftoff on RealVideo, and it's exhillerating.
NASA - Return to Flight: "The Space Shuttle goes from standing still on the launch pad to more than 17,000 miles per hour in just over eight minutes. That means the astronauts go 2,000 miles per hour faster every minute."
I think I had the encyclopedia pages on the moonshot well worn by the time I was ten or so. Meanwhile, no need to wear the pages of the encyclopedia out these days.
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I'd almost forgotten how infatuated I was with space flight as a kid. I guess some of that infatuation wore off with shuttles disintigrating. Though that's always been a risk of spaceflight, so I don't know exactly why that would make me look the other way. But here I am, watching the recent Columbia liftoff on RealVideo, and it's exhillerating.
