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To: Rocket Scientist who wrote (4786)	10/30/1998 2:48:00 PM
From: Valueman	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 10852

*OT** For all you space enthusiasts out there, I have copied this bit from a space newsgroup I follow--you just can't help but get choked up: "Since everyone is studiously avoiding commenting on the Discovery 7 flight, thought I'd better chime in... I was four and a half years old when Glenn rode the rocket for the first time. I remember watching it on TV. When my dad, who worked for Hercules (made the solid fuel retro rockets for Mercury) got home from work, I remember asking "How fast did he go, daddy? How high?" And he said, "Faster than a bullet, higher than the sky." It's one of my first real memories. Yesterday, I watched Discovery go off with my middle daughter, now four and a half. She was waaaaay into it, talking about it the previous night and all that morning about "grandpa John Glenn" going into space (he's three years younger than Arianna's grandpa). When we went to the store, she freaked out because she thought we wouldn't get back in time to watch the launch. She was absolutely riveted by the countdown and launch (this is all very weird, because I really never made that big a deal about it). And when Discovery was just a little speck in the sky, she asked, "How fast are they going, daddy? How high?" (Sniff) DSMichaels"