My family and I are staying at a hotel right now because the horrible wind storm on Thursday knocked out power to our house and flooded Route 108. The electricity did finally return today and we will move back home tomorrow, though we still have no Internet.
Anyway, this week as I was reading chapter five of Chaikin's book, about the lunar landing, I began imagining myself traveling with Collins, Armstrong, and Aldrin. The imagery of the book made the event come alive, immortalizing it forever on the page: the stress of trying to land the lunar module on an unknown surface, Collins worriedly waiting back at the command module, the moon's beauty, the excitement of exploring a place where no human has ever been.
NASA is preparing for a launch at Cape Canaveral on March 3 for the GOES-P satellite (GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite). This is one satellite in a series, designed to provide the imaging for weather on the television.
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