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Happy Moonday
By Brian | July 16, 2009 | Share on Facebook
Forty years ago, they went there to begin a “giant leap for mankind.” Seven months ago, my family and I went there to begin a “guided tour for a couple of hours.” Launchpad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center, roughly forty years apart:
Watching the launch today, I can’t help but marvel at what we accomplished, but also at how positively primitive the technology was at the time. I also marvel at how, now that we have people living and working in outer space for months at a time, a similar launch is nothing more than a brief story on the evening news.
One giant leap, indeed…
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Also, if you look at the full picture of 39-A (here), you’ll see a giant crane and tower that they’re adding to the gantry as we speak. This is to support the spacecraft in the Constellation program, which will follow the Shuttle Program after it’s last flight (May 31, 2010), and will eventually take us back to the moon, and also on to Mars (or so the plans suggest…)
I visited Kennedy back in ’97, but it appears I’ve forgotten many things, or didn’t fully comprehend them when I was there. Something.
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