Last Friday, the Endeavour space shuttle was launched to send some modules on to the ISS (International Space Station). Beside sending the modules, the space shuttle also sent two spiders on to the ISS. Amazing, the spiders get used to the micro-gravity very soon, they now (after a week) can weave perfectly symmetrical webs. That is hard because there is no up and down or right and left in micro-gravity since there isn't really a force pulling on you. Michael Fincke,the space station's current skipper radioed to Mission Control (I love being the Flight Director in Mission Control) on Friday, "It looks beautiful."
The big budget the government gives to the NASA program seems like a waste (to me it did), when the money could be spent on more earthly matters. But thinking about it, there are many scientists who cannot really work anywhere else but NASA due to their expertise.
ReplyDeleteHaHaHoHo...that is a fairly unreasonable assessment, V.o.R. See my comments to the next entry.
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I take back my statement about the money used by NASA program seeming like a waste, and instead offer that the NASA space program might seem like a waste.
ReplyDeleteIt is not.
It doesn't spend any money to send spiders on to the ISS. The conmmander could jt sneak in the forest beside the Kennedy Space Center and get tons of spiders.
ReplyDeleteIt does take any money to send spiders to the ISS? Do they magically float into space via a higher dimension? Or do space shuttles now not need any fuel?
ReplyDeleteYes, I see you mean that the spiders were not the main objective of the mission. But I was not talking about the spiders in the previous posts.
Oh, whatever. but building ISS is important 9if that's what you mean is a waste), scientists can do lots of experiment on there in the micro-gravity situation. Or what should scientists do?
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