Wanted to let you see what we got to experience on 19 Oct when the last of the Titans went up into space from Vandenberg. The burn from the rocket is blinding, and the thunder from the engines (which took about 15 seconds to reach us after we saw the liftoff 5 mile
s away) shook the ground under our feet. Never seen anything like it on this earth.The great thing as that all three girls saw/felt it to. Pretty cool to be 1o years old and watch a rocket blast off into space, eh Sarah? This is also cool . . . and weird! It seems that James Doohan (Mr Scott on the orginal Star Trek) willed for his ashes (6 oz of them, a
t least) to be launched into space after he died. Well, Scotty gets his wish in December (probably a little later as the launch schedule has been pushed back) when a Falcon rocket will launch him into the Final Frontier from Vandenberg. Don't believe it? Check it out: http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/13920.htmlI just hope Scotty doesn't "fly her apart" over Lompoc and rain down on my house. Sorry folks--I'm a chaplain, not a comedian.
2 comments:
"I'm a chaplain, not a comedian"?!?!?!
Those of us who know you well know better.
Ah ha, I've been had!
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