Starship Asterisk*

Regarding the July 1999 photo of the rocket trail: I live in the suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona, and remember seeing this -- and being stunned by it! I was so glad to find out what it was, even after the fact. How wonderful to find a picture of it!

When I was a child I tried to picture what it would be like to fly through the stars (what I could see of them.) Wonderful to have grown up and find that the reality is more magical than the imagination. I don't know how "real" it is, or if the photons "bunch up in front of you" ...

I found the "picture of the day" site not long after I got my first computer, 10 years ago. I just discovered this Board, so obviously I am not a computer expert. I have loved the stars since childhood, and have traveled them in science fiction (Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, et al) as wel...