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Archive for Wednesday, October 29, 2008
And we had liftoff…
Oct 29th
So it’s been exactly ten years since I experienced my first (and only) Space Shuttle launch.
Recounted on this day in history:
Ten years ago: Senator John Glenn, at age 77, roared back into space aboard the shuttle Discovery, retracing the trail he’d blazed for America’s astronauts 36 years earlier.
That was an amazing, inspiring sight. I happened to be in Orlando for a SANS conference that week and so I called “Gator Tours” in the phone book and set up a bus ride out to the space coast.
A truly memorable experience. Now I did take my camera and somewhere I have some nice “far away” photos I can share, but these NASA images below truly do the launch justice:
Less than an hour
Oct 29th
In less than an hour, Barack Obama’s much-anticipated political “infomercial” hits the airwaves. Here is a short preview:
