Posted on 10/24/2023 10:49:17 PM PDT by Paul R.
SpaceX Lands All 3 Falcon Heavy Boosters for the First Time
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When we lived in NM my wife and I knew astronaut (geologist) Harrison “Jack Schmidtt of Apollo 17 (12th man on the moon). My wife worked in his local re election campaign for his Senate seat. He was defeated by Jeff Bingaman.
Those were very exciting and interesting times.
1949 for me. Turn 80 next January.
The first time that I can remember two boosters landing at the same time was when Musk sent his Tesla up.
I missed this one-I’ll have to go back and watch it.
Those landings blow me away, too. I also love the cameras on the rockets.
So cool.
Columbia…😔
I can remember thinking what great changes my grandparents lived through. They lived through a post civil war south, horse and buggy transportation, kerosene or lamp oil lighting, a great depression, two world wars, a post war boom, electric lighting and refrigerators in every home, the assassination of two Kennedys and Martin Luther King, men on the moon, horses as a luxury and two job families.
When our children and grandchildren reflect on us, I wonder what they’ll think?
Yes, my family had a lot of “oral history” from some of the periods you mentioned.
Things that were talked about within the family, but no where else.
I heard many of them generations after the fact.
We’ve been in this county since 1889. Before that in Coryell Co. in 3 wagons with teams of mules. Some of ancestors were born in the Republic of Texas, others came after the CW.
They no longer teach meaningful history in public schools, for a reason. It is called brain washing of past.
I was the first in my immediate family to leave this county, was gone 25 years. Back since 1995, will finish it here, not going anywhere again.
I am not amazed by much but that first simultaneous landing blew me away. Landing within a second of each other.
1956 first grade. You’re still a youngster.
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Okay, okay...so I need a bit more “seasoning” you say. Well how can I CATCH UP if you lot just KEEP getting older??
Yes, I’m whining now.
amazing... thanks for posting!
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