Shuttle Atlantis fueling for its final mission
July 8, 2011 marked the end of an era for the
space shuttle program and as major fan all
space programs, I'm sad that this one is coming to an end because it truly inspired my generation to literally reach for the stars. Space travel was a major thing for me as a kid. I still remember class being interrupted to watch space shuttle launches and it seems as though that impact still has reminents in my life (if you ask my son right now what he wants to be when he grows up he will proudly proclaim, "Astronaut" ). However, this is all bittersweet because I am excited about what lies ahead in the future for
NASA and the technological advances that they inspire. Case in point: we already saw the
Iphone go 10,000 ft above the earth but now we get to see the phone really spread its wings on the International Space Station as its being used to conduct
experiments for NASA's final space shuttle mission.