Man and God

Seeing Wonders in Usual Phenomena imagine that perhaps these things are the answer to their search. But when they obtain these things and experience them at close range, they realize that they were not what they were looking for. Seeing Wonders in Usual Phenomena I n 1957, Russia sent its first Sputnik satellite into space. In 1981, America sent its first space shuttle, Columbia, into space, with two people on board. It was made in such a way that it could be used for around a hundred space journeys. Columbia weighed around 75 tonnes. It cost a huge amount of money. It took nine years to construct. It travelled in space at a speed of 26,000 miles per hour, remaining in space for 54 hours, and revolving around the Earth 36 times. It traversed a total distance of around 10,00,000 miles and then returned to Earth, landing in the Californian desert. When it entered the atmosphere on its way back to Earth, the friction that it encountered caused its outside frame to shoot up to an astounding 1,15,000 degrees Celsius, but arrangements had been made to maintain a comfortable temperature inside for the two people on board. The shuttle landed at almost exactly the appointed time – with a difference of just 10 seconds! Some 200,000 people gathered to see Columbia land. Besides, millions more saw the event on television. John Young was one of the two people on board that Columbia flight. After being in a state of weightlessness for