International Space Station Relations...

I heard the "Endeavor" shuttle had a successful launch this week.  It's delivering some kind of japanese lab to the International Space Station.  The ISS, as we in the field of space exploration like to call it, is a symbol of unity between the US, Canada, Japan, Brazil, and several European countries.  It's really quite inspiring that we can all get along well enough create a floating space lab that is funded, occupied, maintained, and built upon by so many different countries.  Or maybe not... 

Maybe it's ridiculous that the only place we see a glimpse of "world peace" is hundreds of miles off the surface of the earth traveling at thousands of miles per hour in orbit... ... ... now i'm not against space exploration... but maybe we have bigger fish to fry at the moment.