Feb 17, 2009: You Go Girl...

[xoxoxoBruce]

Ralph Kramden said, "Pow, to the moon, Alice, to the moon".
America laughed at the preposterous notion that Alice, or anyone, could go to the moon... in 1955.

Fast forward a couple of years and JFK said, to the moon America, to the moon. So we sent men into space and then women too.
Now, there's a woman on the International Space Station named Sandra Magnus, and she wants more women in space.

More than 120 Girl Scouts from the River Bluffs Council in Illinois got a once-in-a-lifetime chance to talk to an astronaut orbiting the Earth on the International Space Station on Jan. 29, thanks in part to Boeing.
The event, to teach Scouts about space, science and technology, was held at Boeing St. Louis facilities, started with a view of Houston’s Space Center, and a team of NASA specialists who connected the astronaut, Sandra Magnus, via satellite to Boeing.

She then emphasized the importance of studying science and math, and encouraged the girls telling them: "You can do whatever you put your mind to.
"I was about your age when I decided to be an astronaut and I didn’t really think I had a chance; I was in a small town growing up, and it seemed like something that only other people got to do, and I never even thought that it might be possible," Magnus told the Girl Scouts.
"But I decided to try, because I didn’t want to look back on my life and ask myself the question, ’What if?
What if I only would have tried that, would it have been possible if I just would have tried it?’ And so I decided to try, and lo and behold, it’s possible.
So I want you guys to remember that, I want you to believe in yourselves, I want you to find out what your dream is, and I want you to pursue it. Because it is possible."

You go girl!