I've caught a very unfriendly stomach bug and hasn't been feeling very well, to say the least, for the last few days. When I'm not even checking e-mail or blogging, I'm pretty sick. So since I'm here again, I'm feeling much less under the weather.
Last night Christer Fuglesang was supposed to become the first Swedish - and Scandinavian - astronaut in space but unfortunately bad weather postponed the launch to Sunday (too many low clouds). He's been waiting since 1992 when he joined the European space programme and 1996 when he joined NASA, so maybe another few days won't kill him. Rocket launchs are perhaps regular activity for some (although that has changed a bit since the Columbia disaster) but here in Sweden media have been pretty exstatic about this historical event for Swedish space discovery. With the Esrange space centre in northern Sweden, Swedish space industry is growing bigger every year.
Fingers crossed that Fuglesang gets to fulfil his childhood dream on Sunday!
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