Happy Independence Day!
Well I hope that all of you are having a great 4th of July. Since today we had the successful launch of Discovery, I figured it'd be a good time to provide a link to the kitties namesakes!
Vigil is named after Virgil "Gus" Grissom, one of the original Mercury 7 Astronauts who died when Apollo 1 burned up on the launch pad.
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/grissom-vi.html
Kasey is named after Kalpana Chawla, "KC" which sounds like Kasey. She was one of the Columbia Astronauts who died when Columbia burned up during re-entry.
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/chawla.html
posted by Virgil & Kasey @ 7/04/2006 06:31:00 PM
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Both of those astronauts are American heros. Here is a photo I keep in honor of the Columbia crew. http://www.webshots.com/g/56/37389-sh/37377.html
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