Today’s fun fact for the day was connecting my job and the movie Top Gun. This morning I saw a video on CNN that was a sort of interview with the current Shuttle commander (they blasted off earlier this afternoon). He talked about how as a Navy pilot, he was chosen as one of the pilots to help out filming Top Gun. Not only that, but he was also the pilot who ‘communicated’ with the MiG at the beginning of the movie. You know the scene, where Maverick and Goose were inverted helping promote East vs West relations (here it is dubbed in I think Italian). That guy who’s finger keeps Cougar from being shot down is currently rocketing towards the Hubble Space Telescope as the shuttle commander. Awesome. He’s also got a badass first name. Right on.