Posted on 12/01/2012 6:40:27 AM PST by chimera
The problem with NASA is that they lost the spirit of Louis and Clark. Exploring, pathfinding, and prospecting with the intent of private endevours to follow.
So sad.
I remember in the 80s wondering when the Space Shuttle was ever going to land on the Moon. I thought that they could never make it there because they couldn’t get enough fuel due to the Ayatollah stealing all the gas.
Which honestly would have been a much preferable explanation than we just ran out of interest.
Now NASA is a vehicle for political correctness and lousy muslim outreach !
> The problem with NASA is that they lost the spirit of Louis and Clark. Exploring, pathfinding, and prospecting with the intent of private endevours to follow.
Well put together. THANK you for posting!
What? No Muslims?
That wouldn’t pass muster today.
Oh how far we’ve fallen.
Sad... how far we have fallen on so many levels.
Great post. I saw a night launch of the Space Shuttle once, from Statesboro GA. This was back when they still televised the launches. I watched the countdown on TV, then went outside and looked south, and there it was. I could see it from that far away.
Today we have a President, a large majority of Congress, an academic elite, and media that doesn’t believe in American exceptionalism. As a result we have no manned space program.
Amazing that you could see it from so far away. I scheduled a summer vacation once at the town of Cape Canaveral, had a beach house just south of the KSC. A shuttle launch was scheduled for that week but it got postponed. Bummer. Never saw one go up in all my years as a space program geek.
Excellent remembrance of the mission! Thanks for posting.
I watched every Apollo mission as a kid.
I miss the old U.S.A. that could do things no one else could.
Thanks — that was a GREAT read. I actually get a little teary thinking about the amazingness of what these guys accomplished. Talk about audacity.
Thanks for this. It is awesome.
I did the same thing with this night Apollo launch.
From Miami it was quite the site, a giant orange fireball streaking across the sky growing fainter, then a bright flash when the first stage separated. It then turned into a star size and color which vanished in seconds.
Ping.
Pinging the lingers for a truly interesting piece.
Great thread!
True that. It is sadly sobering to think that over 50 years ago we sent Alan Shepard aloft on the first Mercury flight, a 15 minute suborbital hop. Today we have no capability of sending a single astronaut on a suborbital trip.
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