Guest Post: Re-Discovery at National Air and Space Museum

January has turned out to be a busy month. From moving to the Presidential Inauguration I’ve developed a long list of blog ideas, but not a whole lot of time to get pen to paper. So I thought I would let someone else write for a change.

In addition to being a friend of mine, Robert Cannon spends his free time taking photographs of places in DC and his other travels.  This time he decided to go closer to home and was inspired to share his story with me.

When I was young, my family would regularly visit the National Air and Space Museum in downtown Washington DC.  As a kid, seeing the technology and history on display at was awe inspiring. Nothing matched seeing the history of flight; from the Wright Brother’s plane, to The Spirit of St. Louis, to Apollo 11. Even to this day, the thirty seconds when a plane lifts off the ground and my stomach hits the floor fills me with an almost Rand-ian appreciation for human achievement. Continue reading “Guest Post: Re-Discovery at National Air and Space Museum”