In the last few weeks, I’ve had the distinct pleasure of watching history being made twice from the comfort of my living room. The first was on April 1st, when we watched four astronauts blast off on a moon mission for the first time, and the second was last Friday, April 10th, when the Integrity capsule crashed into the pacific ocean. My wife and I held our breaths and sighed a sigh of collective relief as they broke out of the atmosphere and when they re-established communications as the parachutes began to deploy. My five year old, reveling in a chance to stay up late and eat ice cream, chanted ‘staaaay allliiiive’ over and over for minutes and cheered as they touched down into the ocean.
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