Space now belongs to us!

The first Scandinavian in space is Christer Fuglesang from Sweden.

At 49 years of age he finally got to do what he has waited for, for the past 14 years when he started training for ESA. He has since then also trained with NASA in 1996-98 and for the Russians in 1996.

Christer Fuglesang is an associate professor in particle physics at Stockholm University.

Fuglesang was selected for the STS-116 mission with the Space Shuttle Discovery. He has currently performed 2 space walks and there is talk of a third.


Socialism + über raw capitalism can work, who would have thunk it? KIDDING!


Christer had become little of a joke here in his home country because he never got to go to space.. Guess who\'s laughing now?


"Mee!" (Gollum\'s voice)

Last night I saw the Space Press conference or whatever they call it from ISS. TV4 asked him a few questions and Thomas Reiter the German astronaut was there also. The Crown Princess invited him to brief the King after his return.

Happy return voyage Christer!

exploration of space is so pointless.

exploration of space is so pointless.

Not any more.. IKEA will take over the universe.
But really, space exploration helps advance technology, which is good. Also STS-116s mission was the help expand ISS, not really explore so much. ISS is used for lots of things, including medical research I believe.

[GmanJoe]

Please. Raping Brits and Europeans....the offsprings later went to America and colonized. Then years later, their offspring went to space. Hell, NASA even named one of their missions to Mars, The Viking Space Mission.

By Thor.....you are a bit behind with the news, aren\'t you?

[Viper_Fujax]

But really, space exploration helps advance technology, which is good. Also STS-116s mission was the help expand ISS, not really explore so much. ISS is used for lots of things, including medical research I believe.

i agree..just because we cant get a person past the moon and we\'re less than a spec on the universe doesnt mean we shouldnt explore what we can. We go to mars, we\'ll look foreward going past mars..not that we\'d ever put someone in one of the gas planets,lol. If you think that\'s pointless than ur not a science person. But dont worry mm..NASA isnt getting funded the money it needs

i wish the soviets would come back

there is *nothing* out there.

been watching too many movies.

[Viper_Fujax]

i know we\'ll never get out of our solar system but we might as well look foreward to checking out some of the moons. I think there\'s got to be something somewhere, but seeing as the next star is what..100,000 light years away? we cant explore outside of our world...pun intended

I mean..if 95% of our universe is dark matter, and we dont even undestand it, then we should explore during peace time er something.

I think we should start looking for a new Earth. The way we treat this one it can only be a matter of time before something really bad happens to it (us).

[§ôµÏG®ïñD]

there is *nothing* out there.

been watching too many movies.

really?  you\'ve explored all of space have you?  go back into your hole.

[Titan]

i know we\'ll never get out of our solar system but we might as well look foreward to checking out some of the moons. I think there\'s got to be something somewhere, but seeing as the next star is what..100,000 light years away? we cant explore outside of our world...pun intended

I mean..if 95% of our universe is dark matter, and we dont even undestand it, then we should explore during peace time er something.

4 lightyears actually.

really?  you\'ve explored all of space have you?  go back into your hole.

has there even been an aborigine in space yet?

[§ôµÏG®ïñD]

nope, but there\'s been a few aussies.  you know, those people that are laughing at you.

I\'m sure that somewhere, on one of those millions of worlds there\'s *something* worth finding (and I don\'t mean resources).  I doubt we\'ll ever hear about it or see it though, we\'re going to destroy our world long before we get out of the solar system.

we\'ll wipe ourselves out long before we cause permanent damage to this world.

Jeebus will come down and eat all of you before we have the chance to wipe ourselves out.