Discovery docks with space station
Future shuttle flights on hold
Thursday, July 28, 2005; Posted: 8:06 a.m. EDT (12:06 GMT)
CNN) -- Discovery docked with the International Space Station on Thursday as NASA tried to determine why insulating foam fell off the shuttle's external fuel tank
The two trips to Smithsonian Air and Space Museum (mostly NASA stuff) in DC convinced me that the marginal untility of experiments in space aviation seem to be falling.
Since man and woman has already been to another heavenly body besides earth (to moon) -- the excitement for going to another one
Now unless we can find some really strong reasons for pursuing space flights - beyond our immediate space - where te satellites get stuck - I don't see the reason foir roamng around the universe. There is lots of mystery even on earth.
What do you say?
Umesh
I disagree. Space Exploration
Utpal,
I completely agree with you about the need for space exploration.
Umesh's view on the subject seems to be truncated and myopic (no pun
intended).
Many people do not realize that:
Human Beings do not live for the immediate (our life times) only. The
urge to explore whether its deep oceans
Ram-da,
I think there is no reason to imaginethat livingbeings on other planets would need to breathe oxygen like us - or that their body densities would be like ours. They might be needing hydrogen to survive or might have such high body density that even rocks would seem like thin like liquid
