February 19, 2025 2:45pm
Happy Birthday to me. At 4pm PST, February 18, 2025, Crew 10 NS-30 was announced in a Blue Origin press release and I’m in it.
I felt like I had just been born on the internet.
My phone started buzzing non stop with messages that said, “Congratulations!”
One of the first commands I learned in the C programming language was:
printf(“Hello, World!\n”)
Running this command causes the words “Hello, World!” to appear on a computer screen. The first time I made this happen, I stared googly eyed at my screen for a few seconds. I felt like my computer had come alive and was now talking to me.
Staring at my photo in this crew announcement gave me the same feeling. The internet me had just been created and she had a Facebook and Instagram account. A new internet person, just born, with zero friends and followers.
“Hello, World!”, she said.
LINKS
Space Elaine Website
Space Elaine Facebook
Space Elaine Instagram
Watch the NS-30 launch on (Date to be announced)