A Poignant End
The STS-133 crew members, from the left, are NASA astronauts Tim Kopra and Alvin Drew, both mission specialists; Eric Boe, pilot; Steve Lindsey, commander; Michael Barratt and Nicole Stott, both mission specialists. Image credit: NASA
I am having a difficult time figuring out how you can write this post without having seeming bitter. It’s difficult to watch a thing that this nation has performed together and completed well, to be thrown away like yesterday’s garbage. Something individuals have died performing, not because they had to accomplish it but due to the fact they were driven to be the greatest and wanted the country be the ideal.
Ah, that doesn’t matter anymore. I hope everybody joins me in supporting the exclusive business in human spaceflight. Given the chance, private marketplace will be effective. I’m fairly pessimistic I suppose, simply because I’m afraid the first time a thing goes wrong, the government will take a fast break from passing unread, untitled mega-spending bills like they are carrying out some great stroke of company, to shut the exclusive market down too. Don’t believe it? What’s heading on or rather not heading on within the Gulf?
Since the days of Apollo there have been crew wake up songs. Inside a poignant end to the US Human spaceflight program, NASA is running a contest to select the final wakeup songs for the last two shuttle missions. To the STS-133 mission you are able to decide on from a list of previous songs and for your STS-134 mission you’ll be able to send in the song YOU wrote. Entries for the STS-134 mission will be screened and the finalists is going to be put on a list for us to vote on – I can’t wait to hear them.
