No Big Deal

Astronauts Endeavour space shuttle is returning to Earth on Wednesday March 26, 2008. The seven crew members already ran pre-landing checks, including a test of steering jets that will help guide the Endeavour to a scheduled landing at 7:05 p.m. at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
In a world which is more advanced in technology then ever before, insistences such as this is not consider as big of a deal as if was 50-60 years ago. On May 5, 1961 Alan Shepard prepared to ride the Mercury space capsule. Born on November 18, 1923, in East Derry, New Hampshire, this to him as well as to America, and the rest of the world was a very monumental moment. His first flight carried him to an altitude of 116 statute miles and to a landing point 302 statute miles down the Atlantic Missile Range. Although this is a flight that can easily be done again, this flight marked the new advances for technology as well as many more future discoveries about the outer world which Americans at that time knew little about. Though the act of flying beyond the standard limits seemed impossible , these two instances differ in their reaction. This shows how through out time people become more immune to issues, situations, and other historic occurrences and they no longer become “big deals.”