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Here’s a good one. How many of us at one point in our lives said, “When I grow up I want to be an astronaut!” I know I did, and surprisingly it seems that NASA needs kids to start thinking that way again. I saw a news article about this problem and found it quite interesting. NASA apparently has had this problem before during the transition time between the Apollo missions and the Space Shuttle. I guess it should come as no surprise that it is happening again as NASA plans to retire the shuttle without having anything ready to take its place.
That whole thing concerns me a bit. I know we have other launch vehicles, but nothing is as versatile as the shuttle, and we have nothing that takes humans besides the shuttle. With tensions between Russia and the United States growing, it just seems like the wrong time to abandon the shuttle. Beyond that, however, it appears that children are not as interested as they used to be in these sorts of things. Either that or they no longer believe in the American dream – that they can become whatever they want to.
There are other countries dreaming this way. Here are a list of countries that I know are planning to put people on the moon:
- Russia
- England
- Germany (unmanned)
- China
- Japan
- India
- Italy
If there is someone I’ve missed, let me know. It is exciting that so much interest exists in the moon still, however it seems to me that little mention is made of this in the media anymore, and Sci-Fi and real technology is taking a back seat to fantasy and video games for our children.
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