I’m keeping an eye on how hard it is to spell ‘meteorite’. Maybe that’s why NASA calls them ’space rocks’?
I picked this piece up on the NASA site via Twitter (following Astronautics).
Moral of this story is: don’t give up, you’ll get there eventually.
When Alan Shepard was asked what was going through his mind sitting on the launch pad at the Cape in his Mercury capsule, his answer was ‘The fact that every part of this ship was built by the lowest bidder.’ (Interestingly, John Glenn also said the same thing many years later after his return to space aboard the Shuttle).
What would be going through my mind? That my spaceship’s been put together by people who can’t spell meteorite. 
