Hal Jordan was given a ring by a dying alien and became Green Lantern. Kal-El of Krypton traveled to another planet and became Superman.
But these are fantasies. In real life, encounters with outer space don’t confer super powers on anybody. Or do they?
If people are coming back to earth with super powers, you can be sure that sooner or later, the world will find out. And just this week, in a shocking development, one of these extraordinary individuals, Sandra Magnus, slipped up by revealing a long hidden super power to the world.
You may know Dr. Magnus as a respected American astronaut, a mainstay of the International Space Station, as well as a distinguished scientist with advanced degrees in physics, engineering and materials science.
Or perhaps you know her from her days as a designer of stealth aircraft at McDonnell Douglas. Or you might recognize Dr. Magnus in her highly prestigious current position as the Executive Director of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
But this week all of that fell by the wayside as Dr. Magnus finally revealed her true superhero identity: Invisible Girl!
In a ceremony at the White House, the President and Vice President honored three U.S. Astronauts: Buzz Aldrin, Alvin Drew and David Wolf. Each was thanked by name for his service to our country, and both the President and Vice President shook hands with all three men.
Yet somehow, fellow distinguished U.S. Astronaut Sandra Magnus was able to stand not five feet away from the President while all of this was taking place. In a flagrant violation of the laws of physics, she apparently deployed her super powers to make herself completely invisible to both the President and the Vice President.
During the entire ceremony, neither the President nor the Vice President appeared to acknowledge or even notice her presence in the room. What would cause two such high ranking politicians to fail to even see an American Astronaut during a ceremony to honor American Astronauts?
There can be only possible explanation: Dr. Magnus is, in reality, Invisible Girl!