Yesterday the Discovery crew launched the Science Festival in Gothenburg, mainly because Christer Fuglesang is a national hero here in Sweden. So the majority of the crew is travelling around Sweden for various seminars and interviews, I can't help myself wondering what the rest of the crew is thinking about the trip: P. For us Swedes he is a hero, but it is not like he's the only astronaut in the world…it's just a job like anything else. Except it is really hard to get the job :P. But I am big space fan, I just love it. I followed the mission on NASA TV here at work so it was pretty cool to see the guys that you just saw in space standing in front of you in our mall: D.
Its funny how many teenagers reacted to their visit:
"Who the fuck is he?"
"I think it's Christer Fuglesang."
"What has he done? Is he famous?"
"No...he's just ugly"
And this one:
"Oh my god! Those are the people who went to the moon!"
Robert Curbeam, Mark Polansky, Nicholas Patrick, Joan Higginbotham and Christer Fuglesang.