Remembering when..
I just watched the final launch of the shuttle Atlantis, and what I consider the end of the U.S.'s manned space program.
My memories are a bit cloudy, but I remember watching the last launch of the Apollo missions, Apollo 17. I was only five, but I remember sitting on the sofa with my mother as we watched that Saturn V lumber into the sky. The shuttle program lasted far longer than Apollo, we did great things with it, and suffered great tragedy's. I remember where I was when both Challenger and Columbia were lost.
At the end of Apollo the shuttle program was already in the works. And growing up and watching the shuttle program grow and develop was exciting. But where do we go from here? There are proposals, but that's about it. I don't consider myself "in the know" like some people on my friends but with people more concerned about the Twitterverse then the universe I'm not to optimistic.
My memories are a bit cloudy, but I remember watching the last launch of the Apollo missions, Apollo 17. I was only five, but I remember sitting on the sofa with my mother as we watched that Saturn V lumber into the sky. The shuttle program lasted far longer than Apollo, we did great things with it, and suffered great tragedy's. I remember where I was when both Challenger and Columbia were lost.
At the end of Apollo the shuttle program was already in the works. And growing up and watching the shuttle program grow and develop was exciting. But where do we go from here? There are proposals, but that's about it. I don't consider myself "in the know" like some people on my friends but with people more concerned about the Twitterverse then the universe I'm not to optimistic.