At the opening reception, with Doug Hamilton (UMD), Dan Durda (SwRI), and Joe Burns (Cornell).

Trivia question: how many DPS members can boast that they have an degree from a school of Naval Architecture? I don't know, but it's at least one! Joe Burns is a graduate of the Webb Institute, a privately endowed school on Long Island that I'd never heard of before he told me about it. Hey -- ship vs. spaceship?