April 12, 2006
A day of milestones
So Nighthawk did indeed roll over 20000 miles last night on the way to the office. I’m 1/5th of the way through my warranty :) It happened sooner than expected, thanks to a suprise trip to Annapolis, and some extra jaunting around this week.
Slightly larger on the scale of historical importance, today marks the 25th Anniversary of the first Space Shuttle Flight into orbit by the Shuttle Columbia. Seems oddly fitting that the fully functional shuttle program and I are about the same age. Astronaut John Young, who went to moon on the Apollo Missions, said the following to his rookie pilot that day: "any time they’re getting ready to light off seven-and-a-half million pounds of thrust under you and you aren’t a little bit anxious, you don’t understand what’s going on." Talk about a hell of a way to make it into the history books.
Not much else going on, but the day is still young - who knows what else might make it into the books.