Zitat aus Science@NASA von heute

[Ulrich Rieth]

...den ganzen Artikel gibt es unter: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001 ... list131177
Aber weil mich die folgende Passage so stark berührt hat, musste ich sie einfach posten.
Gruß

Ulrich, der den Traum immer noch nicht aufgegeben hat....

Jim Reilly, astronaut: "One of my favorite memories is hanging out with just one hand on the space station, and then swinging out so I could look across the Earth. The atmosphere is really transparent, so you can see a lot of detail on the surface below. One time when I had a chance to hang out on the bottom of the station, the sunset was coming. I left my lights off so I could watch the Sun go down. And as it went down, the stars started popping out. Of course they don't twinkle. They're all different sizes, and even different colors, in space.... At night you can see lightning flashes from thunderstorms on the surface down below. You can get this blue light flashing, and in this case I was able to see it flashing off the bottom of the station. And as I was watching all this, we flew through the edges of the aurora, kind of green and white curtains as we flew past."

"It was pretty spectacular," he added with a degree of understatement.