The Atlantis Space Shuttle blasted off on Tuesday – and even IBM Belgium got in on the act by establishing a multimedia presentation module about Dirk Frimout and the Atlas-1 mission at the Euro Space Centre near Rochefort in the south of the country: what is the reaction to the idea of the First Belgian in Space (c’mon, we don’t buy the old saw about how impossible it is to name 10 famous Belgians – we can do 10 easily without including the Singing Nun or the Mannekin Pis) – our man on the spot in Brussels tells us excitement, or at least passing interest, is mounting.
