A couple weeks ago  Colonel Virts Visited Durham Academy. He  worked as a U.S  Air Force test  fighter pilot, then went on to work for nasa as a the international Space station commander and space shuttle pilot. He retired in August of 2016.  After he wrote a book called An Insider’s Guide to Leaving Planet Earth and The Astronaut’s Guide to Leaving the Planet.

I learned some very cool things when he visited. Like how it feels when you land or take off, but my favorite thing is that he got to see the northern lights from space. They are very pretty in real life but in space the are so much cooler . I also got to get a baseball signed by him.

Here are some photos from him actually visiting.

Book photos: Amazon

Northern lights: NASA

Photos from visit: My teacher