So about a month ago Colonel Virts visited our school and talked about his life. Here’s a picture of him.

So he was born in Baltimore, Maryland 1967 and even when he was little he had a fascination with space and wanted to be a astronaut so he decided to test fighter pilots and quickly became promoted.

On the left you can see young Virts building a model of a rocket and on the right Virts is standing next to his plane. A couple years later he was assigned to NASA and was assigned his first mission

as you can see this is him training for it. And on the next slide there was this video of the rocket taking off and the rocket was launched during the night and it looked like the sun was coming out of the earth and for a few moments it turned night into day it was super cool. So when he was up he took a lot of photographs and I picked a few that I thought were really cool.

This was taken during the night and you can see the city lights from space also on the top you can see the northern lights or the Aurora Borealis.

So as you can see this is a picture of a hurricane, I am not sure which one. What is really cool is that you can see the eye (DUN DUN DUNNN)

Also Terry Virts has written a few books I personally have not read them but I have read the description of one and it sounded pretty good. Here is the book.

I would recommend it but you don’t have to read but it is a great book for people who are interested in *The Final Frontier*

Byeeeee, Maddie 😘

*say it in dramatic tone* (also cue another DUN DUN DUNNN)