CAPE CANAVERAL — Even though he goes to college in the shadow of Kennedy Space Center, Adam Humphries can’t name any of the astronauts who just returned home on space shuttle Discovery.<\/p>\n
And he has no idea why they paid a visit to the international space station.<\/p>\n
“It’s not something that everybody is really into,” said Humphries, 18, a student at Brevard Community College, less than 10 miles from the space center. “It’s not interesting anymore. There’s nothing new that everybody can catch on to.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We can take a handful of people, shoot them into space, have them do some handyman work in zero gravity and get them back to Earth. There is very real danger involved. Yeah? So? 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