De personen die zich hier echt zorgen over maken raad ik dan ook aan om in de toekomst thuis te blijven. 50 jaar geleden was een reis naar Zwitserland reeds een grote reis maar ondertussen zijn er reeds die al denken over het naar de maan gaan (letterlijk en figuurlijk.)
Report: Astronauts allowed to fly drunkWASHINGTON, July 26 (UPI) -- At least two U.S. astronauts have reportedly been allowed to blast off when they were so blasted that colleagues feared the risk of flying with them.
In another embarrassing revelation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced Thursday that a computer to be delivered to the International Space Station had been sabotaged.
Explosion kills three at Calif. airportMOJAVE, Calif., July 27 (UPI) -- An explosion at the Mojave, Calif., airport killed three employees of a private spaceship company and injured another three. The Thursday afternoon explosion occurred at a remote test site of Scaled Composites, which in 2004 became the first company to send a reusable manned rocket -- SpaceShip One -- into space, as workers were testing the propellant flow system for SpaceShip Two, the Los Angeles Times reported.
"We felt it was completely safe. We had done a lot of these (tests) with SpaceShip One," company founder Burt Rutan said at a news conference.
Rutan said officials don't know why the blast occurred but said the suspected source of the explosion, nitrous oxide, is usually "not considered a hazardous material," the Times reported.
