Not Shell Related (NSR) for the most part, but many of you who were at
this year's COA were able to watch a beautiful early morning launch of
the Space Shuttle on the last morning of the convention.  The shuttle
crew returned to Kennedy Space Center today and gave a very nice talk to
the NASA employees about their July mission to the International Space
Station.  They took a lot of IMAX film so you may be able to see parts
of their mission in IMAX theatres in the future (including a space view
of the Mount Etna volcano spewing smoke).  In these days where we
employees have to go past guards with automatic weapons to get into
work, remembering shuttle launches (and shell collecting) bring us back
to happier thoughts.
Alan Gettleman
Merritt Island, Florida