bad. what s done is done, and i would not change anything because i have three beautiful granddaughters who are 6, 10, and 13. i m fearful that if i went back and changed any minor thing, i might not have them. 135 missions in the space shuttle. yes, sir. $200 billion. 30 years. was it worth it? it was worth every dime. as a matter of fact, let me start with what i think shuttle did for the nation over its incredible 30 years that no one will think about unless someone tells them. the technical world in which i live is very non-diverse. there are not a lot of people who look like me. in fact, in the history of the space shuttle program, there are only two pilots of african-american desent in 30 years. there are a lot of different reasons for it. some of which we are not proud of. i think we didn t work hard enough. the shuttle brought diversity to an incredibly technical program. .t allows people of all walks we have had a farm worker, we have had school teachers, we
archives to see what you are interested in about, you tell them strom thurmond and they say let me tell you my story about strom thurmond. that time they did something for him or they time they saw him do something crazy. my story about strom thurmond begins in late july, 1992 and i am on a flight from washington d.c. to charlotte, north carolina. i had been an internet intern that summer off on capitol hill and one of my regrets of the summer was that i had never seen strom thurmond because all of my fellow mentor said you have got to see strom thurmond. he such an unusual appearance about him and i did not know what they meant really. but i had my suspicions. so i m on the flight and i look ahead in front of me and i see a man who has got an orange colored hair practically. it is so brightly colored and the first generation. i think to melf that must be what strom thurmond s head looks like and of course it wasn t strom thurmond. i knew that when people were reaching over a