Fantastic Space, Real Space
Dec. 8th, 2021 07:50 pmAfter watching my way through “Star Wars Visions” I was intent on returning to my Blu-Ray saga box set. I did, though, pause to take in a Urusei Yatsura movie with the impression I was seeing it alongside the episodes of that series that had been on TV at the time of its premiere; to say more about that will have to wait for my year-end “quarterly review.” As for saying something about the six Star Wars movies I watched again, though, I am a bit conscious of my choices getting squeezed from multiple sides now. It was something to finish the movies just after reading the concluding instalment of ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
matril’s long-running “Star Words” on my reading page, but I do suppose the best I can hope for from other people on that page is polite silence.
As I grappled with all of that and wondered what else I might post about “before too long,” I did happen to see a news item that a rich Japanese man had bought a ticket on a Soyuz launch to the space station. It’s been ten years since I bought my Star Wars Blu-Ray set (and a Blu-Ray player and an HDTV to watch it with), but twenty since this form of commercial spaceflight began. (I did try to allude to it back in a MSTing I wrote.) Maybe that made the news a bit easier to just sort of accept than the other commercial flights this year, although I also fear the relative anonymity of the ticket-buyer might have helped reduce reactions. As for Yusaku Maezawa’s follow-up plans to travel out to the moon, though, I did get to remembering an article in the Smithsonian’s Air & Space magazine about plans to send a Soyuz out that far, reprising the Zond missions of the late 1960s with people on board at last, that just seemed to evaporate in the end.
matril’s long-running “Star Words” on my reading page, but I do suppose the best I can hope for from other people on that page is polite silence.As I grappled with all of that and wondered what else I might post about “before too long,” I did happen to see a news item that a rich Japanese man had bought a ticket on a Soyuz launch to the space station. It’s been ten years since I bought my Star Wars Blu-Ray set (and a Blu-Ray player and an HDTV to watch it with), but twenty since this form of commercial spaceflight began. (I did try to allude to it back in a MSTing I wrote.) Maybe that made the news a bit easier to just sort of accept than the other commercial flights this year, although I also fear the relative anonymity of the ticket-buyer might have helped reduce reactions. As for Yusaku Maezawa’s follow-up plans to travel out to the moon, though, I did get to remembering an article in the Smithsonian’s Air & Space magazine about plans to send a Soyuz out that far, reprising the Zond missions of the late 1960s with people on board at last, that just seemed to evaporate in the end.