Into Space Again

@webeishere (36313)
United States
October 23, 2007 10:46am CST
As a child growing up in the 60's I was fascinated with the Space program. Even to this day I still get goose bumps about space flight. Well at 10:30 CDT the Space Shuttle lifted off again. It was launched with 6,425,000 pounds of thrust to get it into orbit. I've watched so many launches of various expolarations into space since childhood. My favorite mission has to be when man landed on the moon the first time. There's about 12 % of Americans that still don't feel we ever landed on the moon. Do you believe we landed and walked on the moon? Good luck to the Discovery Crew. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
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@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
23 Oct 07
Yes I do believe men landed and walked on the moon.. but personally, if it was up to, I wouldn't waste the money.. Instead of seeling a place to after we wreck this place (which wouldn't work anyway) we could invest more into new and cleaner technologies here on good ole planet earth.. - It's exciting tho.. just too bad it costs so much.. It's a dream though is what it is.. I think inherently man knows other planets will come to life.. in the eternities.. (all the other planets?) :) yes, I'm serious..
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
23 Oct 07
But with every mission of the Shuttle we advance our technological studies further. That's the main reason for these missions. Think of all the tests etc they perform while in space. They do a lot more than just fly around up there. HAHAHA!! Thanks also for the response. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
23 Oct 07
My brother is actually an areospace engineer that designed part of the shuttle. Before he retired he got to go many times and eat breakfast with the astronauts...and we as his family got to tour the plant in Mpls where alot of the parts were made..Rosemount Engineering. They are no longer there but he shared many of his experiences visiting with the crews.....I do believe we landed and walked on the moon.
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
23 Oct 07
Cool deal. Now I can say I know someone kind of that designed the Shuttle. HAHAHAHA!!! I had met John Glenn way back in the late 60's at a convention or something for NASA in Detroit. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
24 Oct 07
Andrew Thomas - Andrew Thomas is an Astronaught with the Shuttle Space Program. He comes from Adelaide.
I certainly believe that we landed on the moon. I watched it on TV. In south Australia, all schools were closed when the Moon landing occurred, so that we could all watch it. I have never forgotten that event. There are other Space Shuttle orbits I remember too. I wasn't aware there was another recent space shuttle orbit. Space Shuttles get a fair bit of media coverage here, as one of the previous astronaghts is from my city, Adelaide. His name is Andrew Thomas.
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
24 Oct 07
tHERES ALSO A RELAY STATION IN mELBOURNE i LISTEN TO ON MY hAM rADIO/SCANNER OF THE FLIGHTS ETC. happy postings from grandpa bob !!~
@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
24 Oct 07
Mission to Mars - The front of the building at WDW where Mission to Mars is. A great ride and the closest I will ever get to being in space.
Oh, yes! When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut..something girls did not think about then. I hope someday space travel is common place. And yes I believe that we landed on the moon. I was watching the Challenger lift off, when I was pregnant and over due...it was one of the worse moments I had being home waiting to have my son. Someone gave him a jacket with a rocketship on it when he was born..he never wore it.
@kodie420 (872)
• Canada
23 Oct 07
Well like you I'm totally into space and space travel. The biggest thing that excites me about space is the though of man landing on Mars and setting up base. I think this would be man's greatest accomplishment if we made it there. I'm not talking robots or camera operated toys but a man. As for man landing on the moon, well there's been a lot of stories around that but I have read many articles that states that the US government made the whole thing up to make Russia at the time believe we have beaten them into space mean while it turns out the first person in space was a Russia astronaut in the 1960's. Who really knows right? It's like the whole JFK thing its a mystery we will probably never get a straight answer for or solve.. The only thing that could prove the whole man on the moon thing is to send back another person to the original landing area and see if the old landing rover is still there or any signs that someone had been there before. I know after 40-50 years things would have change on the moon but there must be some sign of evidence that man was there before you would think.
@webeishere (36313)
• United States
23 Oct 07
Ohhh the moon landing will be the same type of controversy like the Kennedy Assasination is and still is 44 years later. I recall being in Catholic Grade School when JFK was shot. Being as he was a Roaman Catholic the nuns brought in TV sets for all students to watch. My God I was only 9 years old. I didn't need this jammed down my throat. Hahahaha! Anyhow thanks for the response. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
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@theprogamer (10534)
• United States
24 Oct 07
Heh, I think you guys would like my Colonizing the Sol System discussion. I do see it as a long run deal. As for the question of the moon, maybe real evidence in a return mission is needed.
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
24 Oct 07
I think the moon rocks brought back were enough evidence for me. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
• United States
24 Oct 07
Ive always liked space and space travel,Last year i went to NASA in Florida,I spent a long day there walking,talking,ooking,and taking pictures. I watched several videos of Space travel when it first began and im going to be keeping up with this as i have a small video collection of some of discovery's first flights.-Joe Dirt
@webeishere (36313)
• United States
24 Oct 07
I lived in Florida in the 70's & never once went to see a launch ever. SIGH! HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
@arcidy (5005)
• United States
23 Oct 07
I heard about that today that this was the first time I think that they send 2 women out into space. I didnt get to watch lift off live on tv because I was at work. For some reason I didnt really care because it seems like every couple of months there going up to the shuttle system. If it was to the moon or to mars then I would be really exited about it and cant wait for that time we go to mars.
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
24 Oct 07
Plus they have another module for the ISS. So they are going to be adding a room basically to the International Space Station. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
23 Oct 07
Space Shuttle - Pretty cool!
I agree, it is amazing that we're able to orbit into space and land on the moon. What even more amazing is how the astronaunts are able to handle the thrust of that much of a push to get them up and out. That's a heck of a lot of thrust!! However I have to say too that it's sad that we know more about the moon than we do about our ocean's floor. I'd love to see more tv progams on the ocean for there are a lot of unknown creatures (weird looking ones too!) still to be discovered. BTW, my mother falls in the 12% catagory, she does not believe any body landed on the moon and refuses to believe it. The same goes with aliens, she doesn't believe in them either whereas my dad does very much so. As for me, I'm open minded. I'm not saying either way. I do believe we've landed on the moon.
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
23 Oct 07
I like the title "UFO". It's so vast and varied what can be classified as a UFO. A lens cover for a camera flying in the wind can be called a UFO if the person has no idea what it is right? HAHAHAHA!! HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~