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Originally Posted by Oxirane
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Originally Posted by What Exit?
I'm a little bit of a space nut. I have NASA as one of my 9 shortcut channels. Though most of the time I just use it when I have problems falling asleep in the middle of the night.
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I definitely am, as well. Dad was a pilot in the USAF and MDANG for 27 years, so I was always an airplane nut as a kid... I was three weeks away from age 7 when Apollo 11 landed on the moon and remember that vividly, so between growing up in the days of Apollo and reading a lot of science fiction, totally get where you are coming from...
It's amazing to watch the displays on the Dragon, it's surreal, it's how Kubrick interpreted Clarke's 2001, and here, it's real...I loved watching them work their way through the post dock/pre-open hatch checklists with touch screen pads that are wireless and tied to the capsule...there was a point where (I think) Bob was looking at his pad, called back to SpaceX and said, "I'm seeing where X valve and Y solenoid are open, I'm recommending we close them", she immediately responded, "I'm seeing the same, I will defer to your decision to close X and Y", freaking amazing...
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Oxi, our birthdays must be pretty close because I was three weeks away from turning 13 when I watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. August 14 is the exact date so everyone out there has plenty of time to get me a birthday card.
This is a big deal, indeed. I couldn't sit down yesterday waiting for and then watching the launch. I was pacing back and forth in front of the TV. Loved every minute of it. This morning too. I really hope I can catch the ISS flying over tonight but if not I'll see it within a few days tops.