10 Jan
2017
10 Jan
'17
4:24 a.m.
On 1/10/17, Jim Sanford wb4gcs@wb4gcs.org wrote:
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. . .one of those kids who grew up with Mercury, Gemini and Apollo . . .one of those kids who watched live as the Apollo 8 astronauts read from Genesis as they circled the moon . . . one of those million people on the Indian River when Apollo11 launched . . . . one of those kids who didn't sleep between the big bang and when Apollo 13 splashed down . . . .
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I was one of those kids, too, though from a more remote perspective here in Canada. The early space program was one reason I studied engineering in university. I wanted to do that stuff myself.
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL