Outer Space

I’ve always been fascinated by space travel. I remember getting up early some mornings to watch Mercury and Gemini launches on TV before heading off to school. My room had a space map on the wall that let me keep track of the historic Apollo 11 mission. I watched as Neil Armstrong took his first step on the moon. And I still enjoy watching Star Trek reruns.

More recently, two or three luckly people have paid small fortunes to visit the International Space Station. More money than I could ever hope to spend.

A little over a year ago, the remarkable SpaceShipOne reached space three times and in doing so, won the X-Prize. Now its designer, Burt Rutan, is working with Virgin Galactic to build an even larger craft of similar design, one capable of putting space dreams within reach, and giving the average guy like me the opportunity to become a space tourism pioneer.

How amazing!

I am downsizing my lists and buckling down. This goal was not realistic.

the only time i can really watch the stars is hitch-hicking. for, if you’re standing on the gas station late in the night, no cars, no clouds – you can watch the stars and enjoy it without time limits. sing the songs, dance, watch the stars…romance!!! All other times i always have to do something: go home, go out, bla-bla-bla – and just have a short look at sky full with stars. but really observing them – no. what a pity!!! hitch-hicking is the way out!!!

Ever wonder what kind of government the first settlement of the moon would have? What language would people speak? Would it be like.. an annex of the US? Or would Russia nuke it?

My mind tends to wonder these things..

yep, there is still a tiny, wee bit of the old astronaut dreams left in me. :)

its an old idea, I know: building an elevator to space.
But I know this really talented construction worker, that is really into elevators, and I am thinking of pitching this to him!

(this IS a joke)

that should be really AWESOME!!! stars everywhere, and aliens saying “hello masha how are you doing?!” they should be green and have big eyes. and 6 fingers on their hands!!!

i loooove to look at the stars….i could spend hours doing that (the only problem is that usually the stars can be best seen at winter night and it’s pretty cold to stand hours looking at the sky…but it’s AWESOME!!!)

anyway…when i look there i feel soooo small and understand that all my troubles are somehow nothing in comarison with the space… but i never feel lonely while watching at the stars..because i feel that somebody on the other planet is watching at his sky at this time and winking me. guy, who knows, someday we might meet!!;-)

i wish my experience to me similar to the experience of space as described in Space Odyssey 2001, as the characters(cant remember who) return to earth without the ship

all your base are belong to us

Want to realize for real that how small i am to the world, and also want to see how lonely and frightening i will feel there