Your Favourite NASA launches , Missions and moments .

[lampblack]

Well... as has been pointed out by others: if we have a functional space elevator as a starting point, we can go anywhere -- and do anything. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#0000ff"><strong>Just tell the truth and let the chips fall...</strong></font> </div>

 

[green_meklar]

A space elevator certainly does make things a lot easier! <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>________________</p><p>Repent! Repent! The technological singularity is coming!</p> </div>

 

[qso1]

I recall the Triton flypast as well. One of those events where scientists expected one thing and got entirely another. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>

 

[bdewoody]

Are you sure? It's been a while but I was sure I made at least 2 drives over to the coast before they got it off. Since you are the shuttle-guy I guess I have to take your word for it. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em><font size="2">Bob DeWoody</font></em> </div>

 

[holmec]

Viking missions, Voyager missions were extraordiary moments for me. To go to other planets all of the sudden was in the realm of possibility.<br /><br />Also the first flight of the Shuttle Columbia. Just a try out flight with a crew of two. But it was the first time since Apollo that NASA sent anyone into space. <br /><br />And then Deep Space 1. That was real cool. The first time an unmanned spacecraft had constant propulsion and could cruise the solar system. It gave a real 'Star Trek' sense of operation.<br /><br />I know this may sound corney but the Apollo-Soyuz rendevouz and docking was momentous for me. I grew up in Europe and from that perspective the cold war was a battle between two giants on both sides of you and you knew if there was a war, you would be caught in the middle. The Apollo-Soyuz mission gave a glimer of hope that maybe, just maybe things will turn out right. That, to quote Sting, "the Russians love their children too".<br /><br />And on a more serene note the day Mir space station had a fire. The crew performed great and suddenly I felt that a fire in space is survivable. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#0000ff"><em>"SCE to AUX" - John Aaron, curiosity pays off</em></font></p> </div>

 

[erioladastra]

"Another Apollo 13 mission quote: <br /><br />Chris Kraft: This could be the worst disaster NASA's ever faced. <br />Gene Kranz: With all due respect, sir, I believe this is gonna be our finest hour. "<br /><br />Just to be clear, that was the MOVIE, not the real mission.

 

[yevaud]

To be additionally clear, the quote is from Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger's book, <i>Lost Moon</i>. <br /><br />You think he might know better than you or I what was said? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[erioladastra]

"You think he might know better than you or I what was said? "<br /><br />Perhaps, but Gene Kranz told me he doesn't recall ever making that statement.

 

[yevaud]

Ooh, "Expert Collision." Lovell versus Krantz.<br /><br />Guess we'll have to let them sort it out between them. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>