Sounds like a slightly crazy idea Tom...but lets hope for the best on the hurricane issue.

On a completely different note and to hijack the thread...what did you think of the "When We Left the Earth" series on the Discovery Channel? As a kid who grew up a few miles from NASA and went to school with all the astronaut's kids, it was pretty fascinating to me. It was especially interesting to here some of the "newly declassified" details of some of the perils those guys experienced. It just so happens I have been reading Gene Kranz's "Failure is Not an Option". If you haven't read it, it is a pretty fascinating look behind the scenes of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo flight control programs. He states outright in a few places that they did quite a few things by the seat of their pants back then that we could never do now (including Ed White's first EVA by an American).

I did not see the series...

We're still doing things by the seat of our pants... Some things just have never been done before. You'd be amazed of our extensive use of duct tape...

ok - more trivia folks. The space station completed its 55,000th orbit yesterday (Thursday) and has now travelled over 1.3 billion miles. It takes about 1-1/2 hours to circle the planet. I have no idea why they tell us this stuff in the morning meeting...

Tom

LOL, Tom, they're just bragging about the mpg.;)