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To: MtnClimber

After seeing so many explosions, I’d agree with Woods on this. I don’t know if I would do it if offered the opportunity. Murphy hasnt always been in my favor...


12 posted on 04/15/2025 5:27:26 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: sit-rep

“After seeing so many explosions, I’d agree with Woods on this. I don’t know if I would do it if offered the opportunity. Murphy hasnt always been in my favor...”


My old neighbor — they sold their house in Montana and moved to Arizona to be near their child and Grand kids — was a professor at our local college. He was an Astro physicist.

One day were were at their house having drinks and I noticed a few engraved beer mugs above a kitchen cabinet.

“What are those? I asked.

“Those are keepsakes.”

“From what,” I asked.

“The space shuttle Challenger, that’s the last time I went to space.”

Turns out he had been to SkyLab three times as well...

They were a nice couple as long as you didn’t talk politics.


41 posted on 04/15/2025 5:51:30 AM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: sit-rep

IMHO, Woods’ post is a back-handed compliment, pointing out that they were in space for just a few minutes. Basically saying it was nothing but a really high joy ride by today’s normal space flight standards.


69 posted on 04/15/2025 7:31:16 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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