Last night, the brightest light in the sky was the pinky red glow of Mars, which is now closer to Earth than at any time in almost 60,000 years.
I’m an old enough bastard to remember the Apollo missions and can recall the excitement of looking up to the Moon and knowing that at that very moment, there were astronauts roaming its surface.
I was so excited by space travel that I wrote off to NASA and they sent back a big glossy pack of photos with some literature predicting that by 2000 there’d be humans stomping all over the surface of the planet. So what happened?!!
Related posts:
Awesome photo of Mars Curiosity as it floats down to the surface of Mars
How astronauts sleep in space and a fascinating look around the International Space Station
High resolution footage shows the descent of NASA’s Curiosity rover on to the surface of Mars
Forty years ago: man drives a car across the Moon’s surface
Interactive Mars panorama as seen by the Curiosity rover
Astronauts talk about seeing Earth from space – fantastic video
Unearthed! NASA’s reply to my astronaut application in 1969
Stunning NASA video of an astronaut’s view of Earth
