Not many can claim they?ve seen lightning strike ? from above the bolt. “It?s something you train for, but no one really prepares you for how beautiful our planet looks,” astronaut Robert Curbeam said. “It?s amazing.”

Curbeam said he watched a 200-mile thunderstorm brewing during one of his seven space walks on three trips beyond the atmosphere. Coming home to his native Baltimore County Wednesday over a 13-day December mission aboard the space shuttle Discovery to rewire the International Space Station, Curbeam received a hero?s welcome at Martin State Airport in Middle River.

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