Sunday, September 16, 2018

Safe Spaces or Space Forces?

"I’m hereby directing the Department of Defense and Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary to establish a space force as the sixth branch of the armed forces."

--President Donald J. Trump

"We don't even know if it's scientifically possible for a non-American to go to the moon.
It's never happened."--Frank J.

“Never has there been a more exciting time to be alive, a time of rousing wonder and heroic achievement.
As they said in the film Back to the Future, ‘Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.’”--Ronald Reagan

"Giant nozzles, bolts and beams
They called her Atlas by all means
Blood, sweat and tears were her payload
She was a stairway to heaven
Old Apollo 11
The rocket ship their Grandpa drove

Yeah on the rocket that Grandpa rode
Sounds like braggin' but it's true
I'm not tryin' to big-time you
Rising up from that lagoon,
we beat those Commies to the moon
Yeah on the rocket their Grandpa rode
Yeah on the rocket their Grandpa drove--"Jimmy Buffett
The Lost Frontier: "Pity the nation whose greatness becomes "historic". ...

Great civilizations can survive a lot of things, but not impoverishment of spirit. That's one reason I didn't join in the media sniggers at Donald Trump's new Space Force - because I'd like it to be true. ... Those "Space Age" astronauts were men of boundless courage and determination: they strapped themselves in and stared not just death in the face but death in hideous and unknown ways. Yet they were also ordinary men, who were called upon to do extraordinary things and rose to the challenge. These days we are unmanned in more than merely the sense of that Luna 2 expedition. Glenn and Armstrong are gone, and their surviving comrades are old and stooped and wizened, and yet the only giants we have. Space may still be the final frontier, but today, when we talk about boldly going where no man has gone before, we mean the ladies' bathroom. Progress."






"Happy 100th Birthday to Ms. Katherine Johnson, NASA human computer who calculated trajectories for the Apollo space missions by hand!"--A.B. Hosey

Q: How do you live to 120?
Gen. Yeager: First, you live to 119, then you be very very careful.
Capt. Cernan: "Always"
Buzz and Neil
stepping into the future together








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