Jul 2001
Forgotton Astronauts
Thursday, July 12, 2001 Filed in: Space
Related
As
posted on
Slashdot today
(but with the proper link here!),
USAToday.com has
an
article (with
accompanying video clip) commenting on how today's
astronauts are practically unknown to anyone, and
compares the fame of America's past astronauts to
the current ones.
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Astronauts used to be worshipped as heroes. Now they're heroes only in the way teachers are: through Hadfield's "unrecognized but extremely valuable work." That's a loss for the country, NASA administrator Dan Goldin says. "These people reflect the American spirit. I'm sad America doesn't know them."
At Houston's Johnson Space Center, the home for the human spaceflight program, astronauts are a dime a dozen. An ordinary person walking across the center wouldn't pick them out from among the engineers and flight controllers.
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to read the article, click here.
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Astronauts used to be worshipped as heroes. Now they're heroes only in the way teachers are: through Hadfield's "unrecognized but extremely valuable work." That's a loss for the country, NASA administrator Dan Goldin says. "These people reflect the American spirit. I'm sad America doesn't know them."
At Houston's Johnson Space Center, the home for the human spaceflight program, astronauts are a dime a dozen. An ordinary person walking across the center wouldn't pick them out from among the engineers and flight controllers.
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to read the article, click here.
Rennovations Are Coming to the Enterprise
Wednesday, July 11, 2001 Filed in: Space Camp
News
Word
on the grapevine has it that the Enterprise sim (the
one Advanced Academy uses), as well as it's MOCR
(mission control) and space station centers are due
for a renovation this fall...
If you go back later, you may not recognize it!
If you go back later, you may not recognize it!