The last launch

  I watched online the launch of Atlantis.  Ken, my son, saw the launch up close.  He was at the closest point that you can get to the launch.  He was in a kayak.  He said it was amazing and a awesome view.

  It has been 30 years for the space shuttle program.  

  But I been following man in space since the launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957 by the USSR (now Russia).  I tracked some of satellites using my shortwave radio and I wrote about them in a printed publication.  It is has been a long time.

  We need to be in space and reaching out.  With budget problems we still need to be going into space but I fear for right now it maybe to costly to send men into space until we want to do joint project with other nations.  I do not see how we can afford to do it alone.