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Dead Presidents: Presidential Quote of the Day:... →
deadpresidents: “I don’t know but that God has created some one man great enough to comprehend the whole of this stupendous crisis and transaction from end to end, and endowed him with sufficient wisdom to manage and direct it. I confess that I do not fully understand and foresee it all. But I am placed here… Everybody only does the best they can. Even Lincoln.
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"Challenger", part 3
Okay, so now we have my comments about the third and final part of the TV movie “Challenger”, which I received on DVD for Christmas this year… - I’m not sure if I should even keep listing how much background eye candy there is in this movie in the form of NASA photos, patches, and posters on walls. Let me just say: there’s a lot, and it’s delicious. - Like,...
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"Challenger", part 2
Part 2 of my comments on the TV movie “Challenger”, which I received for Christmas on DVD… - More cool background stuff- two NASA guys walk past a photo of Bruce McCandless in the MMU and a mural combining an Apollo view of the lunar surface with the A17 Blue Marble shot. - And one of said guys is wearing a purple sweater-vest. Because… 1985. - More Resnik being awesome:...
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"Challenger", part 1
Okay, so I got the TV movie Challenger on DVD from Amazon for Christmas. I’d seen some bad reviews online, but I wanted to reserve judgement until I’d seen it myself. So, here are my comments. The movie’s just a little over 2 hours long, so I’ll do this in roughly 40-minute chunks to break it up. Okay, part one: - The opening of the shuttle being prepared in the VAB and...
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“The only way to define the limits of the possible is to push beyond them into...”
– Arthur C. Clarke (via dream-hope-act) Let’s go!
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“We live in an extraordinary age. These are times of stunning changes in social...”
– Carl Sagan (via dream-hope-act) That generation is ours.
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[Insert Space Here]: First Day in the Astronaut... →
Then Deke Slayton started talking about the new pressures we would have to face. He mentioned “flaps” they had had over the Mercury astronauts and their business dealings. People, especially contractors, could be offering us gratuities and freebies. “With regard to gratuities,” Deke said, “if… I just got my wisdom teeth taken out, and I guess I’m still a little loopy from the...
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“Up there in the immensity of the Cosmos, an inescapable perception awaits us....”
– Carl Sagan (via dream-hope-act, steeped)
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Preisdential Quote of the Day: 12.27.10
deadpresidents: “I do not like broccoli and I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.  And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.  Now look, this is the last statement I’m going to have on broccoli.” — George H.W. Bush (1924-    ), 41st President of the United States (1989-1993) Dude, with some butter and garlic,...
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I suggested giving my baby cousin Padraic the...
No justice, I tell you.
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