Debbie: Space

We are in space ya'll!!

Humans.  Humans are in space. Like ALL THE TIME.  And no one seems to give a shit. 

Did anyone realize a crew, who had been in space for six months, returned on the first of July?  Do we care?

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=147562761

There are over 100 NASA missions currently.  Do we know what any of them are?  Why is there soooooooooo much coverage of Tom Cruise's divorce, and NOTHING on the fact that NASA is shooting 3 more people into orbit tomorrow!

I went to a RADIOLAB performance this past month, and was blown away by the 3rd act when Jad was interviewing an astronaut, who had been to space 20 TIMES.  20!  He recounted a near death spacewalk, which I never read about in the papers.  This American and his Russian partner were locked out of the space station for over 8 hours, and were either going to die of carbon monoxide poisoning OR boil in their suits when their AC units gave out.  Why is this not on the damn news!?

I suggest we all get a little more WOWED by the fact that we have evolved into creatures that can leave our home planet.