Same feeling I had at the end of the Mercury flights....Then Gemini....then Apollo...then the ISS....then the Shuttle missions. What could surpass those events? Damn, what a time. Prayers and thanks for all of the brave American Men and Women who have sat on top of a Redstone, Saturn or any other booster to reach for the stars. Corny? Maybe to the youngn’s but that is how we felt then. ‘Reach for the stars’ was kind of a mantra. The ‘Space Race’? Russia against the USA. What a time.
Exactly.
I was watching the Discovery landing today and recalling a younger version of myself watching a black-and-white version of a similar event in the early 60s’...and thinking even as a kid what a marvelous time to be alive. When you remember those pictures of the little blue marble taken from the surface of the Moon, it tends to put all of our little issues into a whole new perspective. And shows what we are truly capable of. The Shuttle maybe be a “space-borne pickup trucK” but it has turned Jack Kennedy’s vision into a commonplace occurrence and made it possible for the first time in history for mankind to live outside his native planet.
There seems to be some debris in your path these days.