Spacing out for Kidspace

At the Kidspace benefit Saturday night in massive tents in the Parkway Grill parking lot, The Sky's the Limit was the theme, and the costumes -- most everyone in the crowd of many hundreds were good sports and wore them, many very complex -- were themed Cosmic Attire.
That meant a lot of Mr. Spocks, Captain Kirks and, yes, "Star Wars" stormtroopers.
Our host Bob O'Rourke got a clean suit from JPL's satellite rooms. Marketing guru Brad Ball wore his fancy baseball jacket from back when he oversaw the selling of, yikes, "Battleship Earth" for John Travolta and company. I strung around my neck the framed certificate our old family friend Eleanor Helin, the late JPL astronomer, gave me when she named a heavenly body "Larrywilson" as a very kind birthday present 11 years ago. Eleanor was the world's leading discoverer of asteroids, and she could dub them as she saw fit. I keep watching the skies for my little rock ...














