Astronauts are back and safe. I can stand down. I can’t tell you how much I’ve been on edge these past ten days. Gary didn’t help this morning when he shared the heat shield worries.
Anyway, good work NASA, you waited until April this time.
Excellent work on the animated graphics in particular.
Early on while the solar panels adjusted, the panels in the graphic sloooowly adjusted as well. Nice work.
Evidently the toilet was never fixed, so points off for that. Then again, Buzz Aldrin famously never pooped during his week on Apollo 11.
As for myself, I am as exhausted as if I had personally willed it to space and back.
2 responses to “Splashdown”
I was so thrilled to see the news of the successful splashdown!
I only found out here about the concerns about the heat shield, so it turns out I followed the moon mission just the right amount for my amount of anxiety – tuned in only when my daughter told me they were live-streaming the solar eclipse, and also on Apr 9th to watch them answering journalists’ questions the day before.
I am going to assume that you personally DID will Integrity to space and back. Thank you.
CHM – It was a great effort but I did it for all mankind. And was it just me, or did the live eclipse look like a little thumb of light as opposed to the halo in the photos?