Flying High

Last Friday was fun. Kind of. It had been one of those weeks where you can't quite pinpoint where your time had gone, but you know it was longer around and along with it was all semblance of energy. So, after a long day of just of minimal activity I was invited to join a few of the flight surgeons on a little field trip to the T-38 simulator at the space center. For those of you unaware, a T-38 is an airplane. In fact, it's the type of craft used by the astronaut crew for flight training. It looks like this:


It turns out that we have a simulator at the space center. I did not know this. It just so happens that many of a docs are pilots themselves and one of them just happened to have full access to the simulator. So, if you want to know what made Friday interesting, I'd say it was being able to land a T-38 at Ellington airfield. Virtually, at least.