Woooo space shuttle!!!!
As I'm sure I've mentioned on here I'm going to America in the summer and being a bit of a space-nut I'm really looking forward to going to Kannedy Space Centre - sooo imagine my excitement when I stumble upon the New Scientist website saying the next Space Shuttle flight had been delayed....to July....when I'm there!
I'm in America for the entire launch window so fingers crossed it doesn't get delayed again, little issue is we probably wouldn't be near Florida at the right time however seeing as this could well be a pretty much once-in-a-lifetime chance I'm willing to make sure we are!
Great...except the guy I'm travelling isn't a space nut. I just told him the news on MSN in a very excited way only for him to reply "well we'll have to wait for the date to be confirmed" shortly followed by "well if we're down south close to the launch I'm sure we can." Ye what??? Only if we're close by, and even then he's not exactly keen. We have a whole month out there with no commitments, we'd planned to go to Florida and Kennedy Space Centre anyway it's perfectly possible to make sure we're there whenever the launch is scheduled for.
I'm kinda getting worked up by his reaction, he knows how much I love space travel and he knows how much going would mean to me. Years and years I've said I wanted to see a launch, ever since we decided to go to the US I've been saying "how cool would it be.." and now here we are with a launch scheduled when I'm on the same flippin' continent and he doesn't want to go because he'd rather see Chicago before heading south.
Well I've decided. I'm gonna keep trying to persuade him but if he says no I've comprismised this trip enough and there's no way I'm letting this opportunity slip by, wherever we are I'm getting on a train a day or two before and I'm going, if he doesn't want to come then that's his problem. I'm going.
I'm in America for the entire launch window so fingers crossed it doesn't get delayed again, little issue is we probably wouldn't be near Florida at the right time however seeing as this could well be a pretty much once-in-a-lifetime chance I'm willing to make sure we are!
Great...except the guy I'm travelling isn't a space nut. I just told him the news on MSN in a very excited way only for him to reply "well we'll have to wait for the date to be confirmed" shortly followed by "well if we're down south close to the launch I'm sure we can." Ye what??? Only if we're close by, and even then he's not exactly keen. We have a whole month out there with no commitments, we'd planned to go to Florida and Kennedy Space Centre anyway it's perfectly possible to make sure we're there whenever the launch is scheduled for.
I'm kinda getting worked up by his reaction, he knows how much I love space travel and he knows how much going would mean to me. Years and years I've said I wanted to see a launch, ever since we decided to go to the US I've been saying "how cool would it be.." and now here we are with a launch scheduled when I'm on the same flippin' continent and he doesn't want to go because he'd rather see Chicago before heading south.
Well I've decided. I'm gonna keep trying to persuade him but if he says no I've comprismised this trip enough and there's no way I'm letting this opportunity slip by, wherever we are I'm getting on a train a day or two before and I'm going, if he doesn't want to come then that's his problem. I'm going.
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