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The 13 Thursday Blast Off

13moonbow.jpg 1. Why did my sister Trish Bowen, who I think looks like Meg Ryan, model a T-shirt on Fox News on her birthday? See the video clip answer HERE.
2. The photo posted below appeared in The Boston Herald yesterday and is of Trish (front and center), her husband Danny, her sons Matthew (left) and Patrick (right), and her son’s aunt and cousins, all showing off the space memorabilia they got on their recent trip to Florida to watch Danny’s brother, Astronaut Stephen Bowen, and the rest of the Space Shuttle Endeavour crew take-off from the Kennedy Space Center last Friday (which I wrote about HERE).
3. I told Trish, who was a cheerleader in high school, that she looks like she was on the top of a pyramid cheer, just like the old days.
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4. Everyone is very proud of Stephen, and Trish and her family have been getting a lot of attention from the media because of his space flight, but they were famous even before that for being on my blog! See Matthew HERE and Patrick HERE.
5. It’s been reported in the media that Stephen Bowen is an ice-cream junkie and I just learned that a local ice-cream shop near Cohasset, Massachusetts, where the Bowen’s are from, named a flavor after him. It’s called Cohastranaut Crunch.
6. The Endeavour’s destination of the International Space Station was reached on Sunday for what has been described as a “home make-over.” After reading my previous post on Stephen’s space flight a friend sent me THIS link, listing the dates and times when the Space Station can be seen (as something like a bright star) from Floyd. You can type in your own location to find out the best times for you to see it.
7. When I read what the Boston Herald reported yesterday: A navy captain and the first submarine officer selected by NASA as a mission specialist, Bowen spent roughly six hours on what an agency spokeswoman called a “milestone mission,” clearing away metal grit and lubricating the joint of the station’s solar wing – I wondered if while working Stephen was thinking about laying tile, once the Bowen family business.
8. Since I don’t get CNN, I watched the launch on Youtube. I couldn’t help but wonder about how much fuel the space launch used and how much the take-off looked like a mushroom cloud.
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9. Did you know that there is rocket fuel in cigarettes, along with some of the same chemicals found in lighter fluid, moth balls, burial embalmment, nail polish remover, toilet bowl cleaners?
10. The photo above is a Blast from the Past that shows my sister Trish’s wedding to Danny Bowen in 1991. That’s me on the far left and future astronaut Stephen, who was my wedding party escort, standing behind me.
11. THAT was then and THIS is now.
12. When my brother Jim died in 2001, my young nephew Patrick asked his mom, “Is Jimmy an astronaut now?”
13. The soundtrack to this post is HERE.
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November 20th, 2008 Colleen Redman Posted in Thirteen Thursdays

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