{"id":22,"date":"2012-05-28T11:55:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T15:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steffaniskitchen.com\/wwc\/skblog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2012-05-28T11:55:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T15:55:04","slug":"the-final-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steffaniskitchen.com\/skblog\/the-final-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"SpaceX<\/a>

\u00a9 SpaceX<\/p><\/div>\n

Last week Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), an American company that designs, manufactures and launches American rockets and spacecraft, launched its Falcon 9 rocket into space.\u00a0 Then again three days later SpaceX’s unmanned Dragon spacecraft became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully attach to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Wow!\u00a0 I can’t remember feeling like this since I was in grade school sitting on a linoleum floor watching\u00a0any\u00a0of the\u00a0Apollo launches on a\u00a019-inch black and white TV on a rolling AV cart.\u00a0 It’s good to know that Americans are back in space, even if it isn’t NASA.<\/p>\n

Burt Rutan said it well in a talk he gave back in 2006 when he said “It’s not good enough for us to have generations of kids that….look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it.\u00a0 They need to look forward to exploration.”<\/p>\n

It’s good to see that entrepreneurs are stepping up and filling the gaps when it comes to space travel.\u00a0 I don’t know if these ground-breaking commercial steps into space will lead to any type of space tourism that I could afford during my lifetime, but hope has returned, along with that childhood twinkle in my eye and my imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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