Rick Jansen wrote:
John Shilcock wrote:
Rob said "How much do we understand about Space? Kraftwerk have explored it before with two songs, Kometenmelodie and spacelab, so I am sure they are pretty interested in it!
So... is Spacelab about a lab in space? Or....
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/shuttle/spacelab/
Spacelab dived into the ocean about ten years ago.
Hum, I seem to be mistaken here, what I descibed is the Skylab, and that fell into the ocean and on parts of Australia, in 1979, while the Spacelab was(is?) a European lab module carried into space by the space shuttle a number of times. Schneider said he read books by Werner von Braun, and that he was inspired by them. Mind, in the 70's the memory of the Apollo missions was rather fresh, and space travel was still very exciting and high tech, and the sky was the limit. These days there's less money for space adventures, so we may never see Barbarella really happen. Werner von Braun, of course, is the father of the V-2, and later the chief scientist behond the US space program. Rick Jansen -- Web: http://www.euronet.nl/~rja/ email: rja@euronet.nl Any spam mail sent to me results in counter measures.