Prayer Request

Not the post I’d planned for today – received word late yesterday that our close friend and sister in Christ, Sarah,  was back in the hospital this weekend for radiation treatment in her ongoing struggle mortal battle with cancer (now with lesions on the brain and one vertebra).  Bob, her husband is also near total…

Flightdeck Friday: Project Excelsior, 2010 Edition

16 August 1960 — Captain Joseph Kittinger, USAF stepped from the gondola of his high altitude helium balloon and began a record-breaking plunge to the ground, over 120, 000 ft below.  With a drogue chute deployed to stabilize his freefall (a lesson-learned form the first jump) he reached a maximum velocity of 614 mph before…