We can take a handful of people, shoot them into space, have them do some handyman work in zero gravity and get them back to Earth. There is very real danger involved.
Yeah? So?
That’s what the younger generation thinks, according to NASA. Earth orbit just isn’t exciting anymore, I guess.
CAPE CANAVERAL — Even though he goes to college in the shadow of Kennedy Space Center, Adam Humphries can’t name any of the astronauts who just returned home on space shuttle Discovery.
And he has no idea why they paid a visit to the international space station.
“It’s not something that everybody is really into,” said Humphries, 18, a student at Brevard Community College, less than 10 miles from the space center. “It’s not interesting anymore. There’s nothing new that everybody can catch on to.”
