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Ambition Rockets Past 50% Completion On May 14, 2010, another step was taken in the development and construction of the National Flight Academy's aircraft carrier Ambition. Upon reaching the 50 percent completion mark, she was visited by two of the National Flight Academy's Board of Advisors, Astronauts Neil Armstrong (Commander, Apollo 11) and Gene Cernan (Commander, Apollo 17) along with RADM George "Skip" Furlong, Jr. These men got a chance to meet firsthand the ship’s pre-commissioning team (NFA staff) and received a quick update on the overall project. Afterwards our guests headed over into the construction site for an in-depth tour. Our distinguished guests along with NFA Vice-President Kevin "Elvis" King toured the Ambition for ninety minutes. There they were able to put one dimensional briefings and two dimensional images into three-dimensional reality and really begin to understand how the NFA vision is quickly becoming reality. Mr. Cernan spoke several times about ways to integrate various teaching components into the training while making sure the training is fun and exciting for our student aviators, and stressed the long-term importance of a robust and engaging alumni program. One item in which Mr. Armstrong took great interest is the need for students to prepare for their NFA adventure by the use of extensive and immersive web-based training. This training, along with a web-based social networking alumni program, will be available to our students before and after they attend their 5 ½ day aviation-inspired learning adventure at the National Flight Academy. As the National Flight Academy team continues forward on its mission, we took great pride in receiving congratulations and “good job” from both of these American explorers. With Admiral Furlong, we had one of the original visionaries of the National Flight Academy present, who was equally as proud to see the efforts of his hard work coming to fruition.