It's a busy week for astronauts leaving NASA. One day after
educator/astronaut Barbara Morgan announced plans
to leave the space agency for a teaching
position at Idaho's Boise State University, NASA
announced veteran space shuttle astronaut James Reilly has left the
space agency to accept a position in the private sector.
Parachutes... with luck, you'll never need one, but if you do, we hope you'll have one. They're kinda like insurance... you pay a bit for the comfort of knowing that you'll probably never need it.