While being unable turns out you really can’t
No matter what, I still miss going on holiday in Rhodes. Yearning made me browse last summer pictures, once again. This picture was taken exactly one year ago from Mandraki harbor of Rhodes town.
Rhodes, where boys of the Sun go paddling around.
I checked, today the temperature at Rhodes is +32 degrees. That is almost 15 degrees more than where I’m writing from. It’s been a lousy weather for the whole July. Like the sky was making the storm of century for all the time yet being unable to launch it properly. Some rain of course but no real deluge.
I’m happy they got the STS-127 finally into orbit. Now there is only 7 more shuttle launches planned ending with STS-134. Then it’s all over. Sounds pretty incomprehensible.
On Monday the 20th it’s time for great celebration of Apollo 11. I will sleep my dream with NASA vector logo socks on and salute with honor mission Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene ‘Buzz’ Aldrin, Jr. for their exceptional courage and success that turned the history page of human space flights forever. Cup of tea from “Failure is NOT an option” mug will make my day.
On weekends after supper I’m used to take a sip of something good. I was lucky to get a bottle of Mackinlay’s Scotch from my sister. This is the same gender that Sir Earnest Schackleton, explorer, asked for his Antarctic expedition to the South Pole.
I wonder about the force that drives heroes to seek and reach for such extraordinary prize while some of us can’t accomplish more than keep bewailing missed days under the Sun.
“First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important in the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.”
- John F. Kennedy
Cheerio
Tags: Antarctic expedition, Apollo 11, John F. Kennedy, NASA, Rhodes, Rodos, Sir Earnest Schackleton, South Pole, STS-127, STS-134
