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>>ColinW+(OP)
If the launch is a success, how will the world react?

>>onewei+G5
"The World" won't notice and won't care. By the time Apollo 13 came around television networks weren't bothering to cover the launches and in-flight transmissions - not interesting enough. News services have no imagination and no understanding of the enormity of these events.

The other day I went out to watch the ISS fly over and some random passers-by asked what I was doing. When I explained they were, quite frankly, incredulous. They had no idea that there were people flying around the Earth in an oversized tin can, in constant danger of being hit by space debris, doing experiments and increasing our understanding. No idea. I'm still not convinced they believed me.

The general population doesn't care.