Happy Birthday ISS!
I think this feat is significant and sad at the same time. Significant because NASA, in cooperation with the science and technology of other countries, including Russia, has learned, and will continue to learn, a great deal about living in zero gravity, among other probably more amazing break-throughs. And I can imagine that there are many, many more discoveries to be made in the International Space Station (ISS) that will take decades to both find and see into fruition. However, I'm not a little sad about how we seem to have stalled at a relatively short distance away from Earth. Perhaps it's the overall lack of cooperation and thus funding. Perhaps it's the lack of vision of the popular vote (no offense). Perhaps it's that we're happy to have gone this far and are fine with this achievement. And while I'm not disputing that this achievement IS significant, I want to see us reach higher than this and start measuring in thousands of kilometers instead of hundreds.
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