I have always been interested in space.

When I was in grade school the teachers would bring their own television sets to school so we could watch the Mercury and Gemini missions launch. People who didn`t grow up watching the first missions don`t realize how exciting it was and how amazing it was.

For years even after i got married I had a picture of Neil Armstrong standing on the moom hanging on a wall.

I fully agree with you. I watched all of the early space missions even if I had to stay up all night or get up really early. However, I had Farrah Fawcett on my wall. Neil just does not do justice to a bathing suit.

I wasn't around for the early stuff. I'm of the shuttle era so, sadly, when young I only heard of the space programme on TV when things went horribly wrong. (I was 7, I think, when Challenger blew up but I still remember it.)

Really looking forward to the new 'retro-style' system that is to replace the shuttle.

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I wasn't around for the early stuff. I'm of the shuttle era so, sadly, when young I only heard of the space programme on TV when things went horribly wrong. (I was 7, I think, when Challenger blew up but I still remember it.)

Really looking forward to the new 'retro-style' system that is to replace the shuttle.

I'm old enough to remember the Apollo program, But too young to remember any of the Gemini or Mercury Missions, But Yeah Constellation will be better and safer, Dr Werner von Braun would approve If He were still around. Constellation almost sounds like to go where no one has gone before, Mars after training on the Moon, As a Mars Lander will need to be tested in an environment as close as possibly to Mars as We can get and the Moon is as good as It gets, At least in this part of the solar system, crawl first, walk later.

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Thanks SJ, I was wracking my little brain trying to remember what the new system was called: Constellation. I like it.

I bet that Max Faget, who was largely responsible for the blunt cone concept, would approve. :)

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

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Showing my age here, but I grew up on the early Disney man-to-the-moon cartoons. Anybody have a link to those? For me, the Mercury and Gemini were a bit of a let down, they weren't half as cool as the Disney stuff.

Plus, I'm still waiting for my flying car. It is the 21st century, after all.

Found some clips of Youtube, start at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCK3q8uJoMY

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Really looking forward to the new 'retro-style' system that is to replace the shuttle.

Challenger really affected me as well.

I caution that your optimism about the new retro system is mostly based on a 'at least we got somethin' mentality.

There are those at NASA who wish for a job creating new shuttle program.

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There are those at NASA who wish for a job creating new shuttle program.

Yes, I agree, developing a proper space-plane is a good idea, except that the Dogs-of-the-budget will never pay for it.

The existing shuttle fleet is obsolete and needs to be replaced. The new system will be safer than the shuttle and is about the best that is feasible for the moment.

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

There are those at NASA who wish for a job creating new shuttle program.

Yes, I agree, developing a proper space-plane is a good idea, except that the Dogs-of-the-budget will never pay for it.

The existing shuttle fleet is obsolete and needs to be replaced. The new system will be safer than the shuttle and is about the best that is feasible for the moment.

Yep.

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I remeber the mercury program. stayed home from school sick but i was able to see the first to Launches. It seems like we allways had a Tv in the classroom when the Gemini and Apollo was launched too. Now days it seems like yo need to go to the Nasa site to see a launch.

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I remeber the mercury program. stayed home from school sick but i was able to see the first to Launches. It seems like we allways had a Tv in the classroom when the Gemini and Apollo was launched too. Now days it seems like yo need to go to the Nasa site to see a launch.

If it's a west coast launch, your welcome to a seat in my back yard.

Watch out Carlos, you may have more guests than expected!

S@H Road Trip!!!! Destination? Carlos' place!!!

Watch out Carlos, you may have more guests than expected!

S@H Road Trip!!!! Destination? Carlos' place!!!

I’d love to see a real rocket launch someday. Even just a small one launching a satellite or something.

I remember reading about the old Saturn V launches. Spectators were miles away but it was still so loud it you could feel the pressure waves. It would be odd, I think, to see the smoke and exhaust for 10 or 15 seconds before the sound arrived.

Anyway, I can have my bags packed in about 20 minutes. . .

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

Watch out Carlos, you may have more guests than expected!

S@H Road Trip!!!! Destination? Carlos' place!!!

I’d love to see a real rocket launch someday. Even just a small one launching a satellite or something.

I remember reading about the old Saturn V launches. Spectators were miles away but it was still so loud it you could feel the pressure waves. It would be odd, I think, to see the smoke and exhaust for 10 or 15 seconds before the sound arrived.

Anyway, I can have my bags packed in about 20 minutes. . .

I watched those behemoth rockets liftoff, They were truly awesome, the CBS TV booth miles away was almost shaken a part by the immense noise of the Mightiest Rocket the planet has yet seen, Sure the Shuttle is fast, But the Shuttle is nothing compared to the Saturn V rocket...

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The old Saturns were AWESOME.

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The old Saturns were AWESOME.

Heck the old Saturns were AWESOME indeed, The NEW Ares V has a chance to unseat the Saturn V though, As the Ares V like the Saturn V 1st stage has 5 rocket motors similar to what Saturn had, Only bigger I think.

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Apollo 11 - Saturn V Launch

A sense of scale: I am 5'8. This is 64 times taller than I am.

It is 60,770 times heavier than I am. (Do the math. lol)

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

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Apollo 11 - Saturn V Launch

A sense of scale: I am 5'8. This is 64 times taller than I am.

It is 60,770 times heavier than I am. (Do the math. lol)

Well lets see Saturn V was 361' tall and Ares V will be 381' tall and I have some news I dug up on NASA funding.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1513884/obama_2010_budget_to_increase_nasa.html

Push in Congress for Additional NASA Funding (Update)

Google Search - NASA Funding increase

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

This link which was originally posted by Luke.....is one of the most impressive things I have ever seen. Aside from JFK's moon speech.

Stunning in it's power and glory.

Our finest hour? Perhaps.

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I suppose I could say I am from the shuttle-era as well. I was born 3 years after the last moon landing, so I guess that makes me really happy to see Project Constellation fly... that is if the Americans have the money, and Obama doesn't wuss out...

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