Something Squirrelly this Way Comes

The Atlantis launch on Saturday morning (9/9/06) was gorgeous! Thankfully C-SPAN was showing the NASA channel and speaking only in brief intervals - mostly to translate the NASAspeak to us non rocket scientists & engineers. I was briefly worried about the three or four hawks I saw flying around before the launch. Carol can verify this, tho I don't know that she ever saw the birds herself. She did hear me fretting about them.

I hope I'm home and can watch the landing. Hopefully shown on NASA tv via C-SPAN. The people on CNN spend too much time yammering their fool heads off and don't let you hear what the people There - Involved, In the Middle of the Launch/Landing - are saying. That's much more interesting & informational than any "newscaster" on CNN could be.

Here's to a successful mission and a safe return. Fly on Atlantis. Fly on.