Lately, I've been thinking a lot about space and space travel. Not only about recent events like Shenzhou 7's historic spacewalk, but also about past events. Learning about the Apollo missions is exciting to me, so it was a real treat to be able to speak with my grandfather recently about the role that he played during that era. He was able to show me a couple of commemorative tie clips, which were really cool.
I'm excited at the prospect of having our country reach historical milestones during my lifetime: high-resolution imaging of the Moon, returning to the Moon, and an unmanned round-trip expedition to Mars.
Recently, NASA has launched NASA Images, an excellent website with many historical, high-resolution photographs and images from NASA's 50-year history. Many breathtaking and historical images, including the famous "Blue Marble" photo (at the top of this entry), are available from the web site.
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Do you believe that the "Blue Marble" image, being a photograph, has a definite up or down? I personally have always been accustomed to seeing Africa on top and the big mass of clouds covering Antarctica on the bottom but when I try to defend this, I get the "there is not up or down in space" retort. So I'm curious...
I've always enjoyed space stuff, too. As a kid I'd cut out all the newspaper articles about space flights and paste them in a scrapbook. It was just 50 years ago that the U.S. launched its first satellite. A lot has happened since then!
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