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roseembolism ([personal profile] roseembolism) wrote2011-02-28 12:35 am
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In Honor of Discovery, I Think

Honestly. I think it must have been my subconscious doing a tribute to the final voyage of the space shuttle Discovery.

Trying to get over my allergy attack, I took a nap this afternoon. I dreamed that I was in a spacesuit and in an orbit near the International Space Station. Somehow I managed to decay my orbit to 40 miles up (and yes, I was aware of what that altitude meant in terms of terms of atmosphere limits and re-entery profiles) despite a wild grab for an ISS girder. As the atmosphere around me started to turn red in the beginning stages of re-entery, I frantically jury-rigged a method of increasing my orbital vector using a liter bottle of soda and a paper cone. That's when I woke up to an absolutely beautiful sunset of pink and gray clouds.

So consider it a tribute to the queen of the shuttle fleet. Godspeed.

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