Today I got some interoffice mail. This is rare — who sends actual mail anymore? — but not that weird. These days, it’s usually something about JSC’s health and fitness program sessions. I took one of them 8 years ago and have gotten mail about it ever since encouraging me to sign up for another session.
Instead, it was the coolest thing I’ve ever gotten in the mail — and quite possibly the coolest thing I will EVER get in the mail.
Remember this? That’s the neat thank you I got from the STS-129 crew last fall. Butch held up his Rendezvous checklist in front of the camera and we saw that he’d written “Thanks Steve!” and “Thanks Sarah!” on the cover. Steve was their rendezvous instructor and I was their rendezvous flight controller. It was a really nice surprise from a really nice guy.
This is what was inside the interoffice mail envelope: the covers from both of Butch’s rendezvous books (prime and backup), both with thanks written on them. One for me and one for Steve! The flight procedures coordinator, Renee, was archiving the flight books and thought Steve and I would like to have the covers, so she sent them over.
Thanks Butch for being an awesome space shuttle pilot. And thanks Renee for being an awesome FDF coordinator. I’m super excited to have this memento!
