7 Responses to “Around the World in Sixty Seconds”

1. #1 |  Chris in AL |  September 29th, 2011 at 11:37 am

   The lightening flashes are amazing.

2. #2 |  Jacob |  September 29th, 2011 at 12:46 pm

   Awing in the sense that the Federal government is wasting billions of tax payer dollars to let a few chosen elitist joyride around in a metal box orbiting the earth? The U.S. needs to stop elbowing private industry out of space.

3. #3 |  notsure |  September 29th, 2011 at 1:23 pm

   Don’t worry Jacob, private industry is only a few years away from some major advances in Space Technology. The government is grudgingly getting out of the way, and several companies already have some pretty amazing achievements under their belts.

   SpaceX, which won a contract for resupplying the Space Station, has successfully tested a launch vehicle that builds on the concepts used in the Apollo program, but is much more efficient and clean in it’s design (and an order of magnitude cheaper to launch). Their website boasts that their entire development cost to this point has been less than the cost of a single Space Shuttle launch. That includes designing, building, and testing their new rocket.

   Bigelow Aerospace has been developing low cost, inflatable modules that can string together to form a larger space station, and they already have a prototype in orbit.

   Cheaper better safer, industry wins every time.

4. #4 |  Charlie Potts |  September 29th, 2011 at 1:53 pm

   It’s a pity that NASA’s budget is equal to two months of the war in Afghanistan. NASA may not be super efficient, but at least it does great work.

5. #5 |  B |  September 29th, 2011 at 3:00 pm

   Never let awe get in the way of an opportunity to bitch about the government…

6. #6 |  notsure |  September 29th, 2011 at 10:48 pm

   aright you got me there B

7. #7 |  perlhaqr |  September 30th, 2011 at 9:13 am

   What Chris said. Lightning++. :)

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