I've always loved space

Ive always loved space

Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' Tv series along with James Burke's Documentaries in the 1970's (if you know not of he then try a search on YouTube) the Space one's being my fav's.

Star Trek The Original series seen as a young kid on a B/W Tv as well as seeing the incredible Stanley Kubrick film '2001' at a fairly early age.

I was also given a Futuristic Spacecraft Book from the 1970's? which actually showed up on a recent Brian Cox documenatry series & there was also a Cigarette Card collection from this era that i had which showed the missions of the 1960's and future one's to come (I bought the card set back again a few years ago, called 'Journey into Space' I think)

Later in my teens i played a Space trading Game called 'ELITE' on my C64, slow but at the time different and fun.

Stefan - That sounds like a fun book

James - You lucky, lucky fellow, i would love to have seen a Space Shuttle launch (the closest i came is when my friend and i bunked off school to vist Manchester Ringway Airport in the early 1980's to see a fly over by 'Enterprise' the prototype that was piggy-backed on a NASA 747...that was a GREAT experience but NOT as good as seeing a real lauch (sighs) the pilot actually made a 2nd run and so we got a decent photo of this)

I hope James as this mission (LM-1) gets closer and if launched as i suspect from Europe? that i might actually get somewhere close to it to see it

Abi - I think most kids do dangerous stuff (we just can't help it) my father had a huge set of binoculars back in the 1970's, so heavy i could hardly lift them but i always found myself going outside with them and pointing them up to the MOON.

hi Paul true, but we don't want to encourage them to do this

Paul, I'm trying to picture you gazing up at the Moon with those very heavy binocs

Paul, To make it worse Iv'e seen 2 launches. The 2nd Shuttle was the ill fated Columbia Shuttle. ( way before it broke up ) and this trip was planned. It was called off on the first countdown, and in the afternoon it launched.
We were at a hotel overlooking the Banana River, and across this was Cape Canaveral, and watched the launch.
I do have a picture of it on Canvas hanging up in my house. I will post a picture of it if interested?

I would assume the launch of LM1 will be in Europe, and again I am assuming it will be in Kazakhstan. So there is no chance I will get to that. I'm not risking going over that way...