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“Let’s light this candle.”

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Pappy:
I agree BJ, just part of what a man wants to do, like hunting/gathering .Just hope we don't find something we don't want to. :-\
 Pappy

gifford:
Excellent topic and thread "Let's light this candle" for it is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

I remember seeing the headline - Sputnik - and later Muttnik in our local newspaper. I remember getting up early to turn on the TV to watch the early flights, The Mercury Space Capsules. The astronauts going into Space. Certainly like nothing we had ever seen before. 

I remember "Houston, we have a problem". When our intrepid astronauts set foot on the moon, I was listening to it on a portable radio in a USFS guard  station on the Routt National Forest. I was simply amazed, NASA did it.

I recently watched the docking of the space capsule at the space station and the astronauts coming through to the hugs of the members of the space station. What made it unique was a U-Tube poster took the footage and overlaid with Straus' The Blue Danube waltz. It harkens back to 2001 a Space Odyssey, which I saw over 50 years ago.

BAfromPA:
The incredible men and women (and dogs, and monkeys, and whatever other critters) that have been strapped to a rocket and blasted beyond anything we could fathom are worthy of every accolade we can give them. The technological advances, as well as the spirit of global cooperation, that take place on the ISS is mind boggling. To think that it's been up there since '98, it's borne witness to some truly formative periods in human history. Let us hope it also serves as a launching point to explore the stars. Alpha Centauri, here we come!

chamookman:
I was able to watch Allan Shepard, and have watched every launch since ! Sadly, witnessed the Challanger blow-up  (A). The countdown always gets My Heart racing. Bob

BowEd:
I remember the moon walk.It was a proud moment in history.For those proud of this country it still is.The light never went out.Watched the latest manned rocket go up now too.Sadly some in this country have different agendas than being proud of our country and this thread is a good point made.
It's good the adults in the room know the difference.

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