Mark Wadsworth: 448th Person in Space Returns to Earth

Saturday, 18 June 2016

Big whoop

Ralph Musgrave said...: ....and immediately rings ambulance chasing lawyers to say he's had a crash and wants to claim for whiplash.; 18 June 2016 at 12:48
Tim Almond said...: Ralph,

He'll be getting in touch with one of those people on Twitter about flight delays.; 18 June 2016 at 12:54
Mark Wadsworth said...: Still a heck of a feat of engineering, all the astronauts do is risk their lives.; 18 June 2016 at 13:53
Tim Almond said...: Mark,

The engineering of space travel is amazing. I couldn't care less about the people in the boxes that are mostly controlled by computers on the ground. And I think manned space travel is mostly a waste of money. Good for creating news stories, but Mars rovers are more valuable (and cheaper).

I've long argued that the heroes of Apollo 13 were the guys on the ground. Lovell and his crew were pretty much passengers apart from putting a few things together that they were told to do.; 18 June 2016 at 15:18
Mark Wadsworth said...: TS, agreed. The guys on the ground are the ingenious ones, the guys in space are the brave/foolhardy ones. I'd rather stay on the ground myself.; 18 June 2016 at 21:01
Steven_L said...: I'd go up there in a space rocket :); 18 June 2016 at 23:32

Saturday, 18 June 2016