space race

i rarely burst into tears when watching a movie or reading a book. the only movie that makes me cry is Apollo 13 (weird, i know). at the end when the space capsule re-enters the atmosphere with Annie Lennox’s amazing vocal performance… hard to keep a dry eye. now i am reading Chris Kraft’s “Flight – My Life in Mission Control” and guess what happened after i read the chapter on Apollo 8′s first translunar flight? bonus, i could not hide my tears. the time of the “space race” was really exciting, i mean, what are the great adventures today? getting to mars? come on, we’ll never get a human being to mars with the current technology. it’s impossible. granted, those guys in the 1960s thought the same about the moon, but a trip to the moon takes only 3 days… and i read recently, that a mars mission would be deadly to its crew because of the high amount of radiation it would be exposed to…