It's the week-end and many are away or at least don't have a PC at home.
And I've also noticed how much Mars attracts comments while the current manned space events don't (unless there's a problem). Also, the Soviet space program is largely unknown in the US.
If we ever are going to Mars, that planet will also know a large lack of interest as the grass is always greener on the other side.
In 1972, on december 19th, when Apollo 17 splashdowned in the Pacific Ocean, I was with my brother and my grandparents, looking at the event live on TV.
I very well remember a tear on my grandpa right eye (I was sitting behind him on his right side).
He had lived the first plane over Antwerp, the first world War, the second World War, all the way till the last man on the Moon and died 13 and a half months later.
However, those who were born after 1972 and many already have children of their own, now, haven't ever seen those events, live.
Amazing...

Raoul