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I just "picked up" an astronaut...

Posted on 11/14/2008 8:54:21 AM PST by FL_Native

I was out smoking a cigarette and an astronaut just happened to be walking by (I work at KSC). She stopped and we introduced ourselves, she is one of the latest graduates of astronaut candidate training, clas of 2004. We started chatting about what we do and I asked her if she'd like to take a quick tour of our facility (we make the heat tiles for the shuttle). I got to give her a short tour and show her what I do, she seemed very interested. It was so cool, her name is Dottie Metcalf-Lindenbuger. She hasn't flown yet and is not on the schedule, but it was still an honor. These people are the rock stars of my industry.


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KEYWORDS: astronaut; spaceshuttle
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1 posted on 11/14/2008 8:54:23 AM PST by FL_Native
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2 posted on 11/14/2008 8:56:17 AM PST by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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To: FL_Native

I read KSC to be KFC.


3 posted on 11/14/2008 8:56:58 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: FL_Native
Uh, picked up a female astronaut? You might also want to look up William Oefelein and ask him how well it worked out with Lisa. :)

Series, I know where you are coming from. They're remarkable people with one glaring exception.

4 posted on 11/14/2008 8:57:18 AM PST by NonValueAdded (once you get to really know people, there are always better reasons than [race] for despising them.)
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To: FL_Native
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/jscfeatures/articles/000000164.html
5 posted on 11/14/2008 8:57:33 AM PST by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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To: FL_Native

I hope you exchanged contact info.

My home page might clue in about why.


6 posted on 11/14/2008 8:57:42 AM PST by Quix (LAWLESS LEADER QUOTES FM 1900: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: 1rudeboy

Um........I don’t think so.


7 posted on 11/14/2008 8:58:55 AM PST by EggsAckley
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8 posted on 11/14/2008 8:58:59 AM PST by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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To: 1rudeboy

LOL! So did I at first glance.


9 posted on 11/14/2008 9:00:22 AM PST by TADSLOS (McCain Courted Socialism and Brought Us Marxism Instead)
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To: FL_Native

Did you mean: Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger?


10 posted on 11/14/2008 9:00:27 AM PST by amf0611
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I got to the hyphenated last name and stopped reading.

Yeah, I'm that prejudiced!

11 posted on 11/14/2008 9:03:31 AM PST by StACase (Global Warming is CRAP!)
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To: amf0611

yea... I was typing fast and misspelled it a couple of times before I even got as close as I did. Sorry, I got excited.


12 posted on 11/14/2008 9:04:25 AM PST by FL_Native
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To: 1rudeboy
I read KSC to be KFC.

Thank you for firming up my lunch choice!

13 posted on 11/14/2008 9:04:42 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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To: FL_Native
I'll bet this relationship is really going to blossom places.

Particularly when she learns you published her name on FR. ;-)

14 posted on 11/14/2008 9:04:43 AM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: FL_Native; Cagey
Several FReepers I know wanted to be astronauts...since forever.......


15 posted on 11/14/2008 9:06:11 AM PST by Daffynition ("A gov't big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.)
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To: Brian S. Fitzgerald

Not guilty!


16 posted on 11/14/2008 9:07:46 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
"blossom places"?

I don't know what that means either

s/b blossom... places!

17 posted on 11/14/2008 9:08:12 AM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: FL_Native

I’m impressed. They are (no pun intended) pretty down to earth people considering their notariety.


18 posted on 11/14/2008 9:09:00 AM PST by pfflier
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MAN, go for the MILE HIGH CLUB!


19 posted on 11/14/2008 9:09:57 AM PST by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: FL_Native
Wow - cool screenname! ;-p

In the photo posted earlier - the astronaut in the back row, third from the left is one of our Marion County Florida teachers!

His name is Joe Acaba, from Dunnellon Middle School.

20 posted on 11/14/2008 9:10:08 AM PST by Florida native
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