I know I am not one of those people who are good about remembering birthday wishes on LJ but there was a rather special one yesterday. The Herschel and Planck telescopes were launched and are right now winging away to L2. They're real. They're born. New science. New data. this is going to be good!
For those who don't know Lj's own
purplecthulhu was part of the project team and his LJ has a rather moving description of what it felt like to be in at the birth. Congratulations oh purple one!