Now here's a cool picture; you may recognise the fiery disc of our sun but any idea what the little black dot is in the middle? Well it's the international space station and what's even more remarkable is that the space station has the penultimate NASA space shuttle Endeavour docked onto the side of it.
Here is the same photo but cropped so that you can see some detail,
I visited the science museum at the weekend and marvelled at how far aircraft and rocket science and technology has come in such a relatively short period of time, it was only 34 years ago that the pioneer German rocketeer Wernher von Braun who started it all (among others) died, and we're now at the point where the leading US launch platform is about to be retired. Let's hope the shuttle's replacement is just as inspiring to a new generation of geeks, and can we have it soon please, I'm not getting any younger you know!
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