There's a mission going on that I am not working. Well, that's not entirely true. I am working the Entry. But that is another week and a half away. Until then, well, the office is a ghost town. Its creepy.

Its doubly creepy because morale is so low about the future of the manned space program. Really low. I am not sure if its a failure of vision or a failure of management. Its not normal for a budget with this drastic a shift to be rolled out without a real plan in place. And yet a week later, all we hear are platitudes about "bold" and "game changing". Seriously? We're engineers. That doesn't inspire us.

Ok, there's my downward roller coaster space program thought for today.

And now on the upswing, I got a fortune cookie, that if it comes true, will definitely be game changing for the space program: