Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 21:17:14 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [WSFA] Woman Shuttle vet remembers
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Excerpt:
I'd been off the planet for 13 days=C3=A2=C2=80=C2=9412 days, 20 hours, 2=
0 minutes and 4
seconds to be precise=C3=A2=C2=80=C2=94when the space shuttle Atlantis to=
uched down on
runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base in California on February 20, 2001. I=
t
was the 102nd mission in the Space Shuttle program, and the 23rd for
Atlantis. It was my fifth and final space flight and I knew going into it=

that it would be my last. I'd had a good run, as they say: 5 flights in 1=
1
years, with a little bit of everything - satellite deployment and retriev=
al,
a visit to Russia's Mir space station and now an assembly flight to the
International Space Station, joining the first station crew on board.
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<http://science.time.com/2013/07/10/a-shuttle-veteran-celebrates-her-spac=
ecraft/>

Except Constellation was a boondoggle - Jupiter makes a lot more sense.
But if they build the F1-B engine....

         mark