from Kennedy Space Center in Florida – Dragon with two astronauts successfully flew with the Falcon launcher returning and landing. As I understood it – it will be a bit more than nine hours from launch to docking with the International Space Station.
And, in just as momentous although without the same amount of speed – the first of the Cal Falcon chicks launched from the Campanile.
The rest of us? Home bound, land bound and dreaming of flight.
It amazes me – my grandparents were born before flight was a reality. Dad was born before it was much more than an experiment and now we are starting to think of “space travel”.
My grandfather’s father bought him a car as a young man newly returned from the War To End All Wars–and it had windshield wipers. It was the very first car that did, and he asked my grandmother out on a date. She didn’t want to go with him (they’d grown up a few houses apart), but it was snowing and she wanted to see windshield wipers so she went.
They were married 72 years and went from horse and buggy in their childhoods to a man on the moon.