It sounds like a good idea just now – getting the hell off this planet and embracing Space – the final travel frontier.
So Godspeed Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken as they head off on Elon Musk’s 24-storey Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station.
Last year as we all know was the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the Moon.
While next year will be 60 years since Yuri Gagarin.
Waste not, want not
How many years before I, you, and everyone’s gone to the moon in the words of all the song depends on how we feel after COVID.
Space watchers like to congregate around Cape Canaveral, Florida.
But because of COVID they only got to see the first take-off from American soil for space in nine years on the TV.
All of which meanderings around the galaxy before getting to the subject brings me to a special night in Dublin with a real astronaut…
My cosmonaut from The Kennedy Space Center who told us of the myriad sunsets he saw up there.
And how he felt the presence of a Divine Being.
Before he turned to the Holy Grail of Space Travel… a trip to Mars.
With the biggest challenge not the myriad years spent in space but the need to recycle.
Kennedy’s Space legacy
So that the spacecraft isn’t too heavy and eats up fuel they don’t have.
And our astronaut means everything!
Just the jobbie for an astronaut!
But seeing we’ll have to wait for our seats on the ship why not visit https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com.
Where you can dine with an astronaut.
Up, up and away
And this comes highly recommended by the passenger I met on the way to Orlando www.visitorlando.com on my Aer Lingus www.aerlingus.com flight.
Quackers!
I was on my way to meet the Donald Why I love The Donald https://www.disneyworld.co.uk while he was off to see Buzz.
And at least one of these American icons is wired to the moon.
Yes, this is Space – the final travel frontier.
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