Unreal! I’d do it- WTF send me up there on a rocket. Just give me a few Jack Daniel’s for courage first. At the US consulate in Auckland there’s a wicked framed photo of New Zealand taken from a space shuttle flight, signed by the astronauts for the consulate staff. Space is cool.

I also find space fascinating.

I don’t, however, want to go there, just look and marvel at it.

I hope that Mr Trump is true to his word and man finally makes the leap to live on both the moon and Mars, preferably before I peg out.

“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before!”
– Captain Kirk

Beautiful photo of Venus. The vastness of space is beyond my comprehension.

NZ is in a great spot for seeing planets- there’s very little light pollution in this little corner of the world. Last winter we could see Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars out our kitchen window with not even a pair of binoculars. (granted where i live it’s black as black at night)