Shuttle Crew Bids Fond Farewell

HordeFTL Says:

Feb 19, 2010 - Have a safe flight Endeavour Crew, I wonder if the Expedition 22 crew is still finding it exciting up their, I know they've been up their for a while and will be for a few more months, I bet when they get to Earth they feel so strange with all the gravity.

SoneGurke Says:

Feb 19, 2010 - safe journey back home sts-130!

SouthernSky Says:

Feb 19, 2010 - i'm from Poland and I'm really proud of cmdr. George Zamka, a great polish american astronaut who brought to space a Frederic Chopin's manuscript and his piano music as well. Have a safe way home sts130.

Dubaifreak Says:

Feb 19, 2010 - just a noobie question... lool...... is there such thing as UPSIDE DOWN....in space?? =P haha

vikkeviking Says:

Feb 19, 2010 - Upside down is pretty much what you decide it to be.

hackneysaregreat Says:

Feb 19, 2010 - Wonderful mission, Now just come back home safely.

QuasiRandomViewer Says:

Feb 19, 2010 - One of the crew (I don't recall which) reported that most everywhere on the station it is easy to re-orientate themselves within a few seconds with respect to what seems to be their personal up and down when they change positions, but that Cupola is an exceptions. They said that entering Cupola with the windows covers open creates an overwhelming sense of the Earth being down regardless of their position.

QuasiRandomViewer Says:

Feb 19, 2010 - Later, when three astronauts were in the Cupola, Mission control asked them if it felt like being a bat hanging from the roof of a cave or a prairie dog popping up from a hole. They responded that one of the astronauts there felt each way and the third had a sense of it being like looking through a glass bottomed boat upside down. That would seem to suggest that two of them felt as if the Earth was "up".

lucidcafe Says:

Feb 19, 2010 - Zamka said as he went through the hatch, "Don't hurt yourself racing back to the Cupola." That pretty much sums up STS130. Amazing new view. Awesome mission. Congratulations NASA!

garrygolden Says:

Feb 19, 2010 - Awesome... I saw the launch from Titusville and followed every step of the way... looking forward to Cupola images... Safe trip home..

applesweeter Says:

Feb 19, 2010 - Dear All,I have some questions about psychology:(1) Why do we want to travel to space?(2) Why do we feel that space exploration is so exciting?(3) Why do we enjoy the feeling of zero gravity and floating in the space?THANK YOU IN ADVANCE for your creative ideas and brainstorm!!! :)

faab007 Says:

Feb 19, 2010 - I'd give it a try but they are my own opinions,1) Because it really separates us from any other specie here on earth and the possibilities of what we can in space and learn from it seem infinite.2) I believe I answered 2 as well above.3) I can't really tell because I haven't really ever witnessed zero gravity as it is in space but something unnatural but yet harmless seems intriging enough.

vava54own Says:

Feb 19, 2010 - @applesweeter1) Because space is an infinite world of unknow, and human don't like to not know everything :p.2) It's excithing, because we never know what we will discover. Space is much different from our small world (earth)3) Because gravity sucks! Microgravity ftw! I guess it's because it's uncommon to feel zero gravity. It happen very rarely on earth: 1 When you fall from high or 2 when in a plane, crashing, or diving to simulate zero G.:D

QuasiRandomViewer Says:

Feb 19, 2010 - Have you looked at the Skylab videos from the 1970'swatch?v=S_p7LiyOUx0While there is a lot more going on onboard the ISS, it does not have the same large open space as Skylab, which was build inside a large, empty upper stage of a Saturn V rocket, after all the "going to the moon" stuff was left out. I don't believe that we have the ability to put anything that large into orbit in one shot anymore.

SerielThriller Says:

Feb 22, 2010 - Answer for 1 and maybe 2 as well,Space exploration is one way to united humanity together and in a way to force all people to work together,With our massive increase in population and our ravaging Earth of her resources it is and will be necessary to look other places for raw materials, there is trillions of dollars worth of materials in space. Working together in space is a way of taking mankind's destructive nature and putting it to good use