Three chances to land at Kennedy, three to land in California.
Here is my deal. This is part of the reason that I like this stuff so much -- Going into space is the combination of art, engineering, beauty, courage, and knowledge that are -- have to be -- brought together. I can't think of where else one might get such an amazing, over the top combination -- if there is another, I'd love to know about it.
It is a combination of left brain and right brain in a gathering of knowledge that may well assist all of us (and our following generations) in ways that we have not yet considered.
It is taking the step out of the muck . . . because it seems like the right thing to do -- even if we don't fully know why.
It is my cotton candy for the soul.
(ok, that was a relatively gratuitous statement so that I could use this picture).
Oh, and you get to float around.