Out in Space!

"Thirty years ago if you had asked NASA - and people did in those days - `How long would it be before I could buy tickets to space?' the answer was, `About 30 years.' If you ask today, you'll get about the same answer, 30 years. I think that's unfortunate."

Well, at least while we're waiting we can see a bit of progress! Although really, it's about time, I'm still majorly excited to hear that a private team led by Burt Rutan (quoted above) finally went past the 100 km line into "space"! The test pilot, Michael W. Melvill, opened a bag of M&Ms and watched them float! That's what I want to do - go out into space and float M&Ms :-). I think my dream of seeing earth from orbit before I die may be possible after all.

Which reminds me, I saw The Day After Tomorrow at the cinema over the weekend and really, the most gorgeous parts of it were the (mock) pictures of storm systems from orbit - absolutely, dazzlingly gorgeous. Watching multiple tornados hit LA was enjoyable, too :-). Silly movie, but if you don't take it seriously and you have someone (my sister in my case) watching and making snide comments on it together with you it's great fun.