Just think about this amazing company ... and what it will do in the next 24 hours:

• In the next 24 hours, more than 340 satellites put into orbit by Boeing launch vehicles will pass overhead.

• In the next 24 hours, Boeing will export $53 million of goods and services to customers worldwide.

• In the next 24 hours, millions of travelers, hikers, and boaters will find their way home using the Global Positioning System (GPS) designed and built by Boeing.

• In the next 24 hours, 3 million passengers will board 42,300 flights on Boeing jetliners carrying them to nearly every country on earth.

• In the next 24 hours, 6,000 Boeing military aircraft will be on guard with the defense forces of 23 countries and with every branch of the U.S. military.

• In the next 24 hours, Boeing will sell more than $2 million over the Internet at boeing.com, putting us in the top five of all web commerce sites.

• In the next 24 hours, Boeing will send 4,650 shipments of spare parts to airline customers worldwide.

• In the next 24 hours, Boeing and its employees will contribute $254,000 to support community programs in education, health and human services, the environment and the arts.

• In the next 24 hours, Boeing employees will dedicate 690 hours of their own time to volunteer programs in their communities.

• In the next 24 hours, more than 15,000 Boeing suppliers in 81 countries will provide parts and services for Boeing products and the infrastructure that designs, builds, sells, and supports them.

• In the next 24 hours, the International Space Station, which Boeing is helping to build, will orbit earth 16 times.

• In the next 24 hours, more than 80 million homes in Europe alone will receive television programs transmitted via Boeing-built satellites.

• In the next 24 hours, 8 million e-mail messages will be exchanged among employees in the Boeing network.

• In the next 24 hours, about 80 employees will attend a class on their own time to pursue further education through the Boeing Learning Together Program, one of largest corporate tuition-reimbursement programs in the world.

• In the next 24 hours, Boeing instructors will teach from more than 1,600 on- and off-hours training courses in the areas of Industrial Skills, Certification, Engineering, Computing, Leadership and Business Awareness.

• In the next 24 hours, 336 employees will take one of the 3,200 self-paced courses offered by Boeing Learning Centers.

• In the next 24 hours, financing from Boeing Capital will help provide more than 300 companies with the airplanes and other capital equipment they need to grow, prosper, and serve their customers.

• In the next 24 hours, 27,500 moviegoers will watch a movie sent to a theater via Boeing Digital Cinema.

• In the next 24 hours, Boeing technicians and computer programmers will support the 1.5 million lines of flight software code that will eventually run on 44 computers aboard the International Space Station.

• In the next 24 hours, Boeing-built satellites will provide one-third of all the world’s commercial satellite communications services.