If Someone Cries In Space, Can You Hear It?
Posted by TRO on November 5, 2007
Are you crying? Are you crying? ARE YOU CRYING? There’s no crying! THERE’S NO CRYING IN SPACE!
November 5, 2007 — CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Still on “a major high” from Saturday’s successful solar-wing repair, the 10 astronauts aboard the shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station cried as they hugged goodbye yesterday and closed the door between them.
The most tears came from Clayton Anderson, who’s headed home after five months in orbit, and Daniel Tani, who’s starting a two-month mission. They repeatedly wiped their eyes during the farewell ceremony a day before Discovery undocks for its return to Earth.
The shuttle’s lead flight director, Rick LaBrode, said he was still amazed by the weekend’s accomplishment.
“You can imagine that the crew and the ground teams are really on a major high,” he said of the spacewalking repair job. “It was definitely really something special.”
I don’t recall Don Knotts ever crying. What’s with the space program these days? First, we allegedly (gotta stick that allegedly in there) have love triangles involving diaper-wearing gal stalker astronauts, and now we’ve got astronauts crying like little kids leaving summer camp?
What happened to the star voyagers of yesteryear?
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