One of the things I’ve enjoyed recently is following the NASA Space Shuttle mission dubbed STS-134, both via live streaming of NASA TV (including a live view of the launch) and the many video highlights packages. It was the second last of the shuttle program and the last for the newest vehicle, Endeavour, which visited the International Space Station. All the daily mission recap videos on the NASA website are worth seeing as they reveal a great deal not only about the experience of space flight, but the real personalities of the people involved for whom it’s definitely not all intense work and no play. But to start with, check out this visually spectacular and awe-inspiring piece here.
If you are at all interested in this stuff, it will be well worth logging on and following Atlantis as it blasts off for the final time. If I can edit slightly (improve even?) the words of STS-134 commander Mark Kelly – “It is in the DNA of our great humanity to reach for the stars and explore. We must not stop”.
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