Lift Off!

Tommy and I were honored to be invited to NASA this week to watch the launch from Russia.  One of our church members, Barry 'Butch' Wilmore, left Thursday afternoon - along with two cosmonauts - for the International Space Station.  The Space Station has been constantly manned since 2000.
We were able to watch all of it happen from Mission Control here. One of the astronauts speaking to us likened the experience to that of being triplets in a womb, as the three were snuggled tightly into their flight seats.  They would not emerge until almost midnight.
Barry has been in training for over two years.  He will be gone for six months.

This is 'flat' Barry...a cardboard cut-out.

This is the same Mission Control they have used since 1965,

Lift-Off!

Psalm 8:3-9  When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,  

4 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?  

5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.  

6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet,
7 all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,  

8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.  

9 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!