I Met an Astronaut!

In Budapest, we had a big dinner for all of the meeting attendees. The keynote speaker was a real-live NASA astronaut! Shannon Lucid is a fascinating character. She's logged more hours in space than any non-Russian and the most of any woman. She spent 6 months aboard the space station MIR with two Russians named Yuri.

She was full of fun stories about her time in the space program. Like the time that one of the Yuris told her to go stick her face against the window to get some sunshine (she was vitamin D deficient). After 30 seconds she had sunburn as if she'd been out for hours. Fun!

Shannon exercising in space. Astronauts are required to work out 2 hours a day!

The Museum of Applied Sciences.

The attendees

Me with Shannon and Shannon's snazzy jacket.

The place looked really beautiful before we went in and messed it up.

The quintet was really good. The old guy in the front kept winking at me.