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Re: "Mission complete Houston" - ngauger - 07-22-2011 I always liked the saying: Can't go to work today, the little voices told me to stay home and clean the guns. Of course, me being a Renaisannce Faire Geek, I adapted it to: Can't go to work today, the little voices told me to stay home and sharpen the swords. Re: "Mission complete Houston" - Sumpter250 - 07-22-2011 ngauger Wrote:I always liked the saying: All of mine keep whispering BOOM !!! ---- and they just can't seem to be able to figure out my fascination with-- Cranes. If I were a writer, I might - "stay home and sharpen these words". :o Re: "Mission complete Houston" - MountainMan - 07-22-2011 A sad day indeed. The end of an era and nothing in the works for the future, beyond a few wild delusions by NASA of sending more probes to Mars. The SAS motto says it all: "Who dares, wins." We have officially stopped daring. Re: "Mission complete Houston" - ocalicreek - 07-22-2011 Burt Rutan has not stopped daring. Google 'SpaceShipOne' and see what you get! I was there in Mojave the day Mike Melville got his astronaut 'wings', and I stood less than a hundred yards away as they pulled the spacecraft down the runway following the flight...on the tow hitch of a beatup old truck. Burt Rutan and Paul Allen (of Microsoft fame) were riding in the back of the truck with their legs hanging off the tailgate and the pilot was sitting straddled atop the spacecraft. Granted it was only a suborbital flight, but it was ready to go again THE NEXT DAY and could have been readied for a second flight that afternoon. With a rocket motor powered by laughing gas (nitrous oxide) and rubber, it's pretty dern cool. I imagine that's what the barnstorming days of flight must have been like. Daring men in their flying machines... I'll see if I can't dig out a few of my pictures from that day. Galen Re: "Mission complete Houston" - ngauger - 07-22-2011 ocalicreek Wrote:I'll see if I can't dig out a few of my pictures from that day.Please!!!!! That's a Great story!! Re: "Mission complete Houston" - ezdays - 07-22-2011 ngauger Wrote:I always liked the saying:Uhh, you know that I subscribe to the original wording... Just one thing, I'd much rather shoot a gun than have to clean it. Re: "Mission complete Houston" - ngauger - 07-22-2011 Yeah - i know - -you only "clean" them after you shoot |