Daily Commercial readers met when former editor Tom McNiff introduced LZ LAKEHAWK in June of 2018. But as my crusty, crazy-like-a-fox mustang infantry officer pal, Steve Luhrsen, is fond of saying: "You don't have to invent Buzzard. He already exists." Yessir, he does. Born in Houston in the shadow of NASA ground control, the boy was born to fly. Young Kurt Lowell Miller, Sr. really wanted to be an astronaut. Badly. He applied for the program multiple times and pursued every possible venue for getting in through a side door by competing for scholarships in long-term space-study tracks, but finally settled on pursuing a degree in safety engineering from Texas A&M – an Aggie, doncha know.