Other Peoples' Adventures

May 11, 2009 19:54

It was a nice summer afternoon in Monterey when a Navy Captain strolled into my office to return to me a bit of paper I'd printed off the printer on my desk and mailed to him six months earlier. In the months since I'd seen it, it had traveled 3.9 million miles lapping the Earth 165 times aboard space shuttle Columbia ( Read more... )

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Very cool post jugularjaguar May 12 2009, 17:43:56 UTC
I would have to say one of the most interesting ones I have read in some time now.

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wantedonvoyage May 13 2009, 03:45:07 UTC
It must be odd knowing you are doing the last really amazing thing you will ever do in your life.

I guess that depends on your definition of amazing. He could still teach someone how to read.

Cool post, though. I agree with jugularjaguar and your writing is always a pleasure.

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