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1a. Re: Space coast visit by Newt Gingrich - promising to establish a pe
From: CollinS
2. Freedom 7 Mercury Capsule, Flown by 1st American in Space, Heads to
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3. 26th Anniversary of the STS-51L CHALLENGER Accident
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1a. Re: Space coast visit by Newt Gingrich - promising to establish a pe
Posted by: "CollinS" collinskocik@comcast.net collinskocik
Date: Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:18 am ((PST))
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> http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/01/newt-gingrich-vows-to-establish-a-colony-on-the-moon-71871.html
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> Newt Gingrich is promising to establish a permanent base on the moon by 2020 if he's elected president. He said this during a speech at the space coast in Florida, smart move in a critical primary state, there are more NASA employees and contractors in Florida than any other state. Hmm, if Newt wins because of this it might give Obama pause for thought
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> http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/01/newt-gingrich-vows-to-establish-a-colony-on-the-moon-71871.html
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2. Freedom 7 Mercury Capsule, Flown by 1st American in Space, Heads to
Posted by: "J3mia03" j3mia03@yahoo.com j3mia03
Date: Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:19 am ((PST))
Freedom 7 Mercury Capsule, Flown by 1st American in Space, Heads to
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By Robert Z. Pearlman
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lectspace.com/> , collectSPACE.com Editor
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om/> | Jan 28m 2012
The capsule that launched the first American into space more than 50
years ago will soon be moved from Maryland to Massachusetts, before
ultimately landing in Washington, D.C. in 2016.
Freedom 7, the Mercury spacecraft
<http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=126h0jh20/EXP=1328987765/**http%3A//www.col\
lectspace.com/news/news-012612a.html> that NASA astronaut Alan Shepard
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lectspace.com/news/news-050411a.html> rode on a 15-minute suborbital
flight on May 5, 1961, is leaving the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis,
Md., where it has been on display since December 1998. Shepard, who
died earlier that same year, graduated from the academy in 1945.
The Naval Academy announced the spacecraft's pending departure on Jan.
18, promoting the "last chance" for the public to see the capsule on
display at its Armel-Leftwich Visitor Center. Freedom 7 is expected to
leave Annapolis in late February, according to an academy spokesperson.
On loan from the Smithsonian Institution, the capsule is departing the
Naval Academy to be displayed at the John F. Kennedy Presidential
Library and Museum at Columbia Point in Boston, Mass.
"A plan for loaning [Freedom 7] to the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston
is being developed," the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum
said in a statement. [Photos: The Flight of Freedom 7
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Less than a month after the flight of Freedom 7
<http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=126f1s7mr/EXP=1328987765/**http%3A//www.col\
lectspace.com/news/news-050511a.html> , Kennedy challenged the nation
to "commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of
landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth."
Shepard later became the fifth man to walk on the moon.
Freedom 7's arrival at the library will mark the second time a Mercury
spacecraft has visited Massachusetts. In 2002, Liberty Bell 7, which
followed Freedom 7 into space, was displayed at the Museum of Science in
Boston.
Long-range plan
Like Liberty Bell 7, the JFK Library's exhibit of Freedom 7 will be
temporary.
"The National Air and Space Museum is working on a long range plan for
exhibiting the Mercury Freedom 7 capsule," the museum explained in a
statement. "The plan includes placement of the artifact in a major new
gallery which is expected to open in the museum's Washington building in
2016."
The National Air and Space Museum plans for Freedom 7 to be a part of a
"new Apollo gallery for a new generation
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ce.com/12669-45-apollo-moon-landing-photos-nasa.html> ." Replacing the
"Apollo to the Moon" exhibition room, which opened with the museum in
1976, the new gallery "will tell the story of the Mercury, Gemini and
Apollo programs, going from nothing to six landings on the Moon in only
14 years — only eight years and two months from Kennedy's challenge
to successfully landing."
The new gallery will highlight artifacts from the museum's collection,
including Freedom 7, while adding "new content for a whole generation of
people who grew up after Apollo was over."
Mercury museums
The Air and Space Museum currently displays Friendship 7, the Mercury
capsule that launched John Glenn on the United States' first orbital
mission in February 1962, in its "Milestones of Flight" gallery. The
museum's annex, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia, has
"Freedom 7 II," the Mercury capsule that Shepard had hoped to fly for
his second flight before the mission was canceled.
Three other flown Mercury spacecraft are on loan from the Smithsonian to
museums around the country, including the Astronaut Hall of Fame
<http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=126aq1lae/EXP=1328987765/**http%3A//www.col\
lectspace.com/news/news-012412a.html> in Florida, Chicago's Museum of
Science and Industry in Illinois, and at Space Center Houston in Texas.
The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center displays the Liberty Bell 7. In
1999, the museum recovered the sunken spacecraft from the ocean floor.
NASA gave Freedom 7 to the Smithsonian five months after it flew to be
the first manned spacecraft added to the National Collection. Prior it
going to the Naval Academy in 1998, the capsule was on display at the
National Air and Space Museum.
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3. 26th Anniversary of the STS-51L CHALLENGER Accident
Posted by: "Ez2cDave@aol.com" Ez2cDave@aol.com ez2cdave
Date: Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:28 pm ((PST))
26 years ago, today . . . FEBRUARY 28, 1986 . . . STS-51L CHALLENGER lifted off and, 73 seconds later, exploded in a huge fireball, taking the lives of 7 Astronauts, brave American Heroes & Heroines.
President Ronald Reagan's poetic tribute soothed the day's raw emotions.
"The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives," Reagan told a grieving nation after canceling that night's State of the Union address. "We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of Earth' to 'touch the face of God.'"
Dick Scobee
Michael Smith
Ellison Onizuka
Judith Resnik
Ronald McNair
Christa McAuliffe
Gregory Jarvis.
The first of the shuttle astronauts to die on the job.
Seventeen years later, almost to the day, seven more astronauts were killed, this time at the end of their mission. Instead of booster rockets and freezing launch weather, fuel-tank foam insulation was to blame. The similarities between Challenger and Columbia, though, were haunting. Another multiethnic crew lost, more poor decision-making, an intolerant work culture, drum-beating pressure to launch.
NEVER FORGET AMERICA'S HEROES ! ! !
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