Cheers, this sort thing really does fascinate me. The trouble is i was born 100 or 200 hundred years to early, because there will come a day when zooming in or looking down at the earth from space is the norm.
I forget the guys name but i can see why he paid a few million pounds to go up to the space station for a week. He said that the view of the earth from space is the most beautiful thing you will ever see.