40 years since The First Step

Today, 40 years ago, these three men went to the moon, two of them, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, the first men on the moon. It's incredible, I wish I lived back then to watch it all live. I'll be able to watch parts of the journey today on TV. Well, yeah, they've shown different documentaries and stuff about Apollo 11 and the whole land-on-moon thing for some days. But I always get so facinated and excited when I watch these programs. Today, they'll show hours of this (^O^).

And I've watched more Star Wars lately. They showed Episode VI on TV two days ago, and yesterday I sat and watched Episode IV. Mark Hamill (Luke) looked so young in IV compared to VI! Now I have Episode I and V left to watch. Yeah, I watch them in a weird order... I wasn't planning on watching them like this, but ah, it's fine anyway. I'll see when I'll watch the last two episodes. Episode V was a long time... Episode I is like I remember it like yesterday. But I like it so.

"Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has"

Lately, I've been watching movies. And I picked up Star Wars Episode II, I love that movie. I think it's my favourite in the Star Wars Saga. The evening after I watched Episode III. It's the darkest one, and once again I realize what a sad story it's behind the whole Saga. I love the whole Star Wars Universe, I would like to visit a place like it, like Coruscant, or Naboo with the beautiful nature. I'll probably pick up Episode IV too, soon. It was a long time since I last saw it.

And soon it's been 40 years since Armstrong put his foot on the moon. On the TV, they're showing programs about the history of space crafts. Today I saw a program where they showed how it started, how USA and Russia tried to be the better one, the first one on going to space, the first one to get to the moon, the first ever to step a foot on the moon. Lots of things I already knew, but I hadn't seen the real videos so many times, that was interesting. And there were things I didn't knew about, like how many times Russia failed to get cosmonauts safely back to earth, how many times both countries actually lost their astronauts/cosmonauts. There was so many people involved, and people lost to get human beings into space. How hard it was, how much pressure for each countries to get first, win the competition about space.

It was really interesting.

So now I see the moon, tried to take some photos, but failed to take something good.

I was thinking back to the TV-program, realizing that there was a history, at the same time wondering how it felt to get there so close, to step on the moon's surface. And how much the people on earth that's been working on getting there, what they felt when the cameras filmed the moon, the earth seeing from the moon's horizon. It must've been amazing.

One of my dreams was being an astronaut.

Now I recall why I wanted to be it. And also, how hard it must be to actually make it come true. Now it's just a dream of a dream for me, daydreaming. But who knows, maybe there will be a space tourism in some years, maybe I'll be able to get to space as a tourist some day in my life. Let's hope.

PS. Btw, Harrison Ford turns 67 yrs today (13th). Congrats Han Solo!

Christer Fuglesang, back to Sweden!

25 January, thursday.

Christer Fuglesang came back from Florida. He came back around 7.30 am that day, and after arriving, he had a tight schedule.

Some schools got the opportunity to get to KTH (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan), and hear him tell about his trip to ISS. KTH is where he took the exams for the engineering program, and that's how hw began his career as an astronaut.

Around 10 students and a teacher from our school went there. I was one of the lucky 10, and one of my classmates too. We two where so excited when we heard that we got that opportunity, to see and hear Fuglesang live!

He showed us his own filmed video from the trip, and at the same time, he talked and explained how it was. After the video, the public could ask him questions.

There were so many people and many camera men from different companies. Even our teacher came with a digital camera, with whom he got all the way down where all the other camera men where, and he took so many pictures that he said imust be around 200 or so...!

It was very cool to actually see Fuglesang live, and so on. I'm happy I took this chance to go and hear him speak about his experiences. Not everyday thing, this is. (^^)

Fuglesang, back to earth!

Fuglesang is back to earth! He had a safety landing on the second chance of landing. Discovery landed on Kennedy Space Center in Florida 11:32 pm Swedish time. He has already got another mission to space on his list! ESA (European Space Agency) has decided that Fuglesang is going to another mission, because of how he'd been managing this mission, which was very good! He has said that he feels good after the landing, and will spend his Christmas in Florida with his family.

What a good end for him, and a beginning of his career as an astronaut!
My opinion is, he's been working very good, and it's been his first mission to space ever. He's been waiting for so long, and at last he could fly out of our atmosphere, doing a great job at ISS. I'm impressed! And proud of him, as a Swedish citizen.

I wish him good luck on his future missions to space!

Lussebullar!

Today, we baked "Lussebullar". It's a Swedish Christmas bun/cake that every family bakes when Christmas is coming.
With GLAY's "One Love" album, me and two of my brothers made these Lussebullar. They looks more tasty in real, than these photos... (I need to buy a real digital system camera....!) and they are more tasty than they looks like !

Today Fuglesang and the crew on Discovery are going to ISS. Hope they'll made it without problems. May the Force be with them!

Fuglesang Liftoff!

Finally he's flying out to space! 2:47 am this morning, he finally gets his dream come true! I wonder how he feels now, and what he's doing... I wish him all luck!
Hope he'll have a great experience!

In our figure skating club, we're preparing for the Christmas show, every skating class were practicing on their own Christmas programs. I've done a program for my little group of children, with the song "Frosty the snowman". I hope they'll remember the program until next week, when the show is...! They're around 4-6 years old... I wonder how good their memory are, we'll see next week! (^^)

Yesterday evening, we went to one of my brother's friend's sushi bar. They're closing for this year, taking Christmas break, so they invited us to eat some sushi. The sushi-maker is doing such great sushi, you can't find any better sushi in Stockholm than there!! Here's a picture of some of the sushi:

Well, I have to get something to eat before I get to my own practice with the team!

Fuglesang second chance

The night between thursday and friday, 3:36 am, the Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang had the chance to become the first Swedish astronaut in space. Unfortunally they couln't lift due to the weather. Everything here in Sweden have been about this, and they had it live on TV and so on. But no, he's not up yet.

Now, he can have his second chance to get to space. I really hope that he gets this chance, he's been waiting for so long. NASA is going to say whether there will be a second start sunday 2:47 am or not, in about 1 hour 20 minutes. We'll see...

And today, I've been working on a school assignment, in astronomy. About Edwin Hubble and the Hubble Space Telescope. Did you know that the telescope can take such good pictures that if it is over Washington D.C., it can take a picture on a firefly in Tokyo! (*o*)