My Silver Dream...

Last night I saw something that I dream will someday be a similar reality for me; the Shuttle/Mir complex. I followed the path of the duo's orbit using the live tracking found at the United Space Alliance's site. When the two vessels started cruising over the Pacific Northwest I went outside armed with only my eyes and a pair of binoculars. I found nothing unusual in the sky for a minute or two. Then, a medium bright star caught my eye and I soon discovered that it was skating across the sky like a beautiful ice-ballerina on an Olympic rink. I knew it had to be Mir and the Space Shuttle.

I've had to be an astronaut since at least my second grade year in elementary school. Even then I wrote a story about the Space Shuttle and thus a dream was born. Seeing that point of gliding silver light last night set my ambition a notch higher. Perhaps someday, someone eager like me will spy a dot like that one in the sky last night and realize that therein lies their dream. Maybe I'll be on that one. Maybe someday I'll be a dot.

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