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If you ever get a chance, visit NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Make sure you check out the tours offered. Watching these missions on television just do
by hourislate 10y ago
If you ever get a chance, visit NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Make sure you check out the tours offered. Watching these missions on television just doesn't really give you an honest perspective of the courage and effort it takes to hurtle into the darkness.
At the end of the tour you're taken to a place along the road in the facility where you observe a minute of silence next to a grove of trees, a tree for each astronaut who gave his life for the Space Program.
President Bush gave a moving address after the Loss of Space Shuttle Columbia.
https://history.nasa.gov/columbia/Troxell/Columbia%20Web%20Site/Documents/Executive%20Branch/President%20Bush/president1.html https://history.nasa.gov/columbia/Troxell/Columbia%20Web%20S...
- ghswa 10y agoAt Christmas they put white lights on all of the trees except for Pete Conrad's which gets red lights. At his funeral his crew mate Alan Beam said "Pete says that while he was here he was always the shortest astronaut, but he doesn't want his tree to be the smallest tree. Pete wants his tree to be special the most colorful tree because his motto is, When you can't be good, be colorful." I also think it would be respectful to the women who died in the space programmes to edit "his life" to "their life".
- burkaman 10y agoAnother great speech is the one written for Nixon deliver in case Apollo 11 failed: http://watergate.info/1969/07/20/an-undelivered-nixon-speech.html http://watergate.info/1969/07/20/an-undelivered-nixon-speech...