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Old 10-15-2024, 12:57 AM   #51 (permalink)
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I can still remember waking up one morning and hearing about Sputnik (on my new transistor AM radio) before I went downstairs for breakfast.

Watching the booster coming in hot was, for me, equal to the view of the first Falcon Heavy going up.

Mars before the end of the next Presidential term? It's all up to Gwynne Shotwell. She's the one making it happen.
My first space memory was probably Columbia disintegrating. We've done nothing as impressive as the Apollo missions in my lifetime, until now. I'm amazed at the pace of progress made.

Seems the Deep State is between a rock and a hard place. They want the US to dominate space, but they don't like people talking about whatever they want. Interesting times we live in.

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