{"id":12314,"date":"2010-02-08T02:22:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T10:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=12314"},"modified":"2010-02-08T02:22:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T10:22:50","slug":"historic-rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/12314","title":{"rendered":"Historic rocket science"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nNASA STS-1,<\/a> April 12, 1981<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1981, I woke up in the middle of the night to watch the launch of the first space shuttle. <\/p>\n

And then they scrubbed the mission. <\/p>\n

Had to wake up a second<\/em> night to see the actual launch (above). I recorded the whole thing on a cassette tape (my first VCR was still a year away). Frank Reynolds<\/a> of ABC did the blow by blow. It was the Columbia.<\/a> Got the mission patch when visiting NASA in Mountain View.<\/a> Star Wars-like lettering for the name (below).<\/p>\n

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We all thought the shuttle launch would look like what they did in Moonraker<\/a> (1979). It was a bit different.<\/p>\n

Tonight, I just finished watching the launch of Endeavour<\/a> (below). This is the last year of shuttles for NASA. More stuff on NASA TV here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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STS-130,<\/a> February 8, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n

Thx to Shandi Pierzina for telling me about tonite’s launch<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t

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