I am Celeste Erickson and I am an aspiring journalist. Here I will post my best work in recent years for hope of future employment in the industry.
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To infinity and beyond: Western program director and former astronaut witnesses last launch of NASA space shuttle
In July 2011, after 30 years and 135 missions, NASA’s Space Shuttle Program launched its final flight. Former astronaut George Pinky Nelson, now the director of Science, Math and Technology Education at Western, watched Atlantis shoot into an overcast sky from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
“I was surprised how moving it was for me to see the last launch. The whole crowd teared up,” he said. “[The shuttle] poked through the clouds and disappeared.”
Nelson said in the larger picture it was the end of an era, but on a personal level he was reliving something he felt privileged to be a part of.
Celeste Erickson 