New user pic

[stonebender]

I can be a creature of habit. To illustrate the fact, for just about as long as I've had a Livejournal, I've used the same default user pic. Today, thanks to both of my dear loves I have a new user pic and it is now my default. It's a picture from a recent surprise trip that loracs took me on. A group of spaceflight fans set up a display of equipment used in various space missions (Russian and American). I got to touch all kinds of equipment that had actually been in space. The helmet I am wearing was used in space. How do I look? Thanks to loracs for the wonderful surprise and taking the picture (she used her cellphone pretty good, huh?). Thanks to serenejournal for helping me size the picture.

P.S. Astronauts are much smaller than I expected

Comments

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't think it's practical to be doing manned missions, and I kind of wish people would give up on this "put a man on mars," thing, but hot damn would it ever be *neat*. (I don't think space exploration is itself pointless -- I think it's quite important -- but I think we should be doing it with robots as we've been doing.)

We'll have to agree to disagree on manned spaceflight, but as you say putting a man on mars would be pretty *neat*