This was a very fun and busy day.. It actually started shortly after midnight.   We stayed up late to watch a rocket launch. Our good friend Doreen,Max’s future mother  in law spent her whole career at NASA designing satellites. Even though Doreen retired a few years back.. She and her husband (and our good friend) George back to watch the launch of her final project, the TEMPO spaced-based spectrometer for measuring pollution. It was going up on a  satellite being launched by a SpaceX Falcon reusable rocket.   Doreen sent this pic of her and George by the rocket

The launch was scheduled for about 12:20 AM. we watched in ton the NASA streaming service.. SO coooooool !

We watched the launch , the watched the amazing Falcon rocket land its 1st stage  back on a robotic ship.

It was great watching.. but I needed to get some sleep.. I woke up at 5 to drive  down 3 hours to Springfield MA watch our Rookie FIRST Robotics Team 9101 Green Mountain Robotics compete int he New England Regional Championship.. It was so exciting !

I headed home about 3… but learned on the way hoem that our team 9101 had been chosen as Rookie of the Year and was invited tot eh World Championship in Houston in 2 weeks. So proud of the team !

I got home to Jonesville around 6:30 .. Our friends Henrik and Johannes had already arrived. Hendrik is my good friend (and mentor) from MIT-IBM.. Johannes is his super nice  partner. He just finished his PhD and will be beginning a post doc at Harvard in AI Visualization.. a pretty hot topic now.  It was great to see them both !.. We’re goign to show them BuETA and Burlington tomorrow. 

Fun day !

-jc