Shuttle Endeavour 'go' for Sunday blastoff

Cupola

What I never realised before is that the crew of the ISS (until Cupla is installed) can't see Earth visually, except maybe, through a docked Shuttle's windows, or by electronic means (cameras) - unless they nip outside for a quick cigarette ^W^Wspacewalk. Corrections gladly received if I'm wrong.

Makes Bowie's "Major Tom" a bit more poignant.

"Am I sitting in a tin can Far above the world Planet Earth is blue...."

Even maximum security prisoners can see "...that little tent of blue that prisoners call the sky", as Oscar Wilde called it in the 'Ballard of Reading Jail*'

They're braver than I could ever be.

* Never realised it (the ballard) was so long, and so well written. That's the only line I knew. Digression, but worth a read. http://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/classic_books_online/rgaol10.htm

There had damn well better be

some decent Twitpics from the cupola