Recently I watched a talk by Charles Simonyi about his space flight in 2007. The talk was given in University of Washington and they graciously shared the video below.
http://www.cs.washington.edu/events/webcast/silverlightplayer/?asx=mms://videosrv6.cs.washington.edu/talks/Colloquia/high/CSimonyi_071129_OnDemand_100_1064K_640x480.wmv
Take aways:
1. 3000 mil just got you into the door of the space program. There was so much more behind the scene in order to really make it to the launch pad. Even if I have 3000 mil in my pocket, I probably won't be able to go through the 12-month long training...
2. Simonyi talked about some of the engineering practices and weird tradtions which were suprisingly simple and even laughable sometimes. Seriously, when it comes to space flight, we were just like our early ancestors trying to play with fire. We pray and hope we don't get burnt.
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