Atlantis is back....

Last saturday, NASA's STS-117 mission involving the Space Shuttle Atlantis returned to earth successfully, bringing home the record-breaking Sunita Williams and six other astronauts. A section of the thermal blanket, which protects part of the shuttle from the blazing heat of re-entry, had peeled back from its left engine pod mount during the launch, rekindling the memories of Columbia disaster. Space walker Danny Olivas secured the torn blanket with medical staples and pins. An initial inspection found a slight gap between the blanket and the surrounding heat tiles after landing, but the anchor pins were still in place.

Hats off to Danny Olivas and the NASA.

But who ensured that the pins wouldn't give way?

Here they are;




Whatever we do, let's do it with dedication and devotion as these little ones demonstrate :-)