Posted on 12/01/2004 4:59:18 PM PST by KevinDavis
Thirty-year-old Larry Clark, already an accomplished commercial airline pilot and flight instructor, is in line to become one of the world's first private astronauts.
Clark's company, Canadian Arrow, was among more than two dozen teams that competed earlier this year in a $10 million race to send a privately developed spaceship into sub-orbital flight. He is the only American among Canadian Arrow's six-member astronaut corps.
(Excerpt) Read more at spacedaily.com ...
I was four years old when man first walked on the Moon. Something has gone terribly wrong in the intervening 35 years.
A pause perhaps, not terribly wrong though it can seem so. We rushed to the moon to beat the Soviets and Shuttle did not deliver the cheap access to space that we thought it could. Much has been accomplished since Apollo. Voyager, Galileo, Cassini, Hubble, Mars Rovers, so many others. We have not been idle. We have a space station that will be completed too. We may never know a time when humans are not in space again. I agree to a certain point because it does feel terribly wrong being the age we are and our expectations that we had for the future. But the human life span is short unfortunately. Things are looking up though. The new space initiative under Bush is quite remarkable event and there is every reason to be optimistic. Four more years should cement it in place. I believe that we will see humans back to the moon for good and footprints on Mars before we die. And I expect to personally reach space, perhaps even orbit.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.