{"id":1866,"date":"2019-09-07T06:26:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T06:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2019-09-07T06:26:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T06:26:22","slug":"star-struck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanvwork.com\/blog\/star-struck\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Struck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just went outside and looked up at the stars.<\/p>\n<p>And I remembered this extraordinary moment in my life..<\/p>\n<p>I was working on the International Space Station as a structural engineer. I came home one evening and the Space Shuttle was approaching the Space Station. It happened to be passing over my city that evening. I must have known the time because everyone at work must have been talking about it that day.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, at the time it was supposed to be passing over (I think it was 8 or 9pm), you could see this tiny little speck of light getting closer to this slightly brighter speck of light. Both specks were traveling across the sky together, roughly at the same rate. <\/p>\n<p>To see something you&#8217;re working on flying overhead in orbit is, well, it&#8217;s trippy.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny, I haven&#8217;t thought about that moment in years. And even when I did, I didn&#8217;t have the same &#8220;wow&#8221; memory. But tonight I had enough time to myself to really take it all in.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no big conclusion to sum up here. It was just a wild moment in my life I wanted to publish. I guess if there&#8217;s any take away &#8211; try to slow down once a week, reflect and reset.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, that mission was probably in 2001 or 2002. Nope &#8211; had to be 2001. 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