Not only did SpaceShipOne reach outer space — and win the $10 million prize for two spaceflights by the same privately owned space craft — but I actually talked on the phone to Valentine Smith on the phone today.
Actually, it was Valentine P. Smith Jr. and I talked to his wife, not him. And she had never heard of Robert A. Heinlein or “Stranger in a Strange Land”
But a bunch of my co-workers watched the flight in the breakroom and cheered.
All in all, a good day.
