It was nerve-wracking enough to watch my son, Air Force Col. Ronald J. Garan Jr., lift off from Cape Canaveral on the Space Shuttle Discovery in June 2008 for a mission to the International Space Station.

Imagine what is going through my mind as I anticipate his lift off on his next mission to the space station, this time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Soyuz TMA 21 spacecraft.

A Sun Sentinel.com reporter called to get my reaction to the event and they posted this article “Astronaut’s Treasure Coast mom nervous about launch from Kazakhstan“