Two Columbuses by Jana Kokavcova

What have the world famous seafarer and discoverer Christopher Columbus and the new space station Columbus in common? It is really not in age, because the space station Columbus is new modern machine that will help people on the Earth to explore...To explore, that is it. So, new space station will help us to explore new things in the universe. Christopher Columbus was the man who brought us new knowledge about new and strange country for us & about America. He explored this new continent for Europeans and opened window to new life for a lot of them. The space station Columbus will be so important for humankind too. We really do know that we are not the only in the universe. That our earth is not the one planet, but we really don't know if there is another life, we should only to think about it. We could only guess. And this new space station called Columbus could be helpful, could help us to explore new worlds near our own. Columbus was created as "Columbus" in year 1992 because the creators would like to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Christopher's famed sailing. The space station Columbus will be managed from a control center near Munich in Germany, and the main language in this center and in this space station will be English, because creators think it would be the best decision. English is known as world language, so there is possibility everyone can speak, write, read something in English. Scientist really know, that this language is more popular than Russian that was used years ago in another space station. Now we know what have two Columbuses in common. It is their voyager's passion and the benefit for humankind they both have.

related story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus

by Jana Kokavcova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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