-Image courtesy of NASA per Pixabay It’s taken me a over a week to reflect on Space Week which ran from October 4 to October 10, but in the cosmic time scale, it's less than the beat of a butterfly's wing, though I will have missed telling you about the recent meteor shower or the two comets which which were visible from earth, but better late than never. This was going to be a short post to celebrate some of the achievements in space exploration and a brief look at the future, but suddenly it has expanded into several pages just thinking about the ways in which Space Travel impacts our daily lives, that I now have to turn it into two posts with the next one being about future directions and some of the issues which these raise. Let’s start with a brief recap of those important milestones. History October 4, marks the date in 1957 that the Russians succeeded in putting Sputnik 1 - the world's first satellite into space. I remember the occasion well, if not the ...
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