People tend to remember Desert Storm as a short, easy war—and compared with the “forever” wars that followed, that makes sense: a 100-hour ground war blip in the annals of history.
From the non-nuclear powered flattops of the Forrestal, Kennedy and Kitty Hawk to the Enterprise, Nimitz and the Ford classes, Capt. Cassidy "Dudley" Norman has hooked them all.
The launch of a SpaceX rocket ship with two NASA astronauts on a history-making flight into orbit was called off with 16 minutes to go in the countdown Wednesday because of thunderclouds and the danger of lightning.