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[The Rebel]

Awesome stuff! I love this stuff as I was born in Nov of 69. We really should be promoting more of this on TV. Let the kids see these positive role models rather than the trash the media promotes. Get kids interested in science, math, aeronautics...etc... We need more of these role models than landscapers. Remember the movie "The Right Stuff"

I've been to Huntsville, AL as my grandparents lived in Alabama. Also been to Cape Canaveral.

This is a great website and I've listened to a ton of it.

http://wechoosethemoon.org/

 

[snakeyes]

Huge crowds publi viewing area on east shore of Rogers Dry Lake to watch the first space shuttle landing. I believe April 14,1981

 

[snakeyes]

more than 200,000 people witnessed the first space shuttle landing from a 1 1/2 mile long parking area

 

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Scene of Edwards Air Force Base after landing of the space shuttle Orbiter Columbia to end STS-1 Astronauts John W.Young commander ,and Robert L.Crippen pilot are still inside

 

[snakeyes]

April14,1981 Landing of the first Space Shuttle Mission

 

[super-bee_ski]

View attachment 496101ski do you remember this

'Early" Shuttle landing, East Camp.
I was not here then

I have been here for many Shuttle landings
The Base became closed after 911
INTEL had BlackHawks flying around before Shuttle would approach
Gun Ships
"We" (America) figured out that a terrorist group could "hide" in the crowds with a shoulder launched sidewinder and shooting the Shuttle
Yup, 911 changed everything....

 

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[snakeyes]

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1298.html

 

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Ham -1958-1983 known as Ham the chimp and Ham the Astrochimp first to be launched into outer space in The American Space prgram

 

[snakeyes]

https://phys.org/news/2016-11-nasa-asteroid-days.html

 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

 

[snakeyes]

1959 Von Braun moves to NASAhttp://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/von-braun-moves-to-nasa