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Re: Atlantis
Its crazy how space flight is gettin so normal these days.. this mission is incredibly dangerous and is going to provide huge amounts of info and photography if successful yet there so little media coverage. Well compared to a space mission 20years ago lets say. Yet the second something goes wrong, people die (because it is still incredibly dangerous) or money is wasted, the media latch onto it and question the use of this money, the need to go into space, whose fault was it that this or that exploded... and NASA and other space gencies are damaged by these reports and have to waste time justifying their actions, maybe ground their fleet and waste even more money by cancelling missions... The success of this mission is going to be a backpage report on most papers and only if something goes wrong will there be a media frenzy.
its such a shame because space flight used to be so romantic an idea and every kids dream... i dunno, it just seems like its taken for granted now, the heroic era of space exploration is well and truely over... now its a struggle just to keep public opion on their side!
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