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Tag Archives: Michael Collins
We Choose to Go to the Moon
(Found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g25G1M4EXrQ.) When I was a child, I heard these words spoken by a President who dared to dream; by a man who said we would be on the moon by the end of the decade. Many thought he … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation History, Flying, History, Life in General
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Tagged a President who dared to dream, Apollo 1, Apollo 11, Apollo missions, Ed White, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Gus Grissom, January 27 1967, July 20 1969, Lunar Module (LM), Mars is waiting..., Michael Collins, NASA, Neil Armstrong, Roger Chaffee, The Eagle, the Sea of Tranquility, the summer of 1969, We Choose to Go to the Moon
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Where is My Jetcar?
When the clocks ticked over from December 31, 1999 to January 1, 2000, everyone in the entire world collectively held their breath to see if all of the computers would crash. There had been a great deal written and published … Continue reading →
Posted in Life in General, Personal
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Tagged 2001 A Space Odyssey, airplanes, Apollo, baby-boomers, Bones, Captain Kirk, code writers, computers, December 31 1999, flying, flying cars, Gemini, Gene Roddenberry, George Jetson, Global Positioning Satellites, hardware, internal clocks, January 1 2000, Jetcar, John Young, Michael Collins, New Year’s Eve, old-fashioned, recognizing the year 2000, Saturday morning cartoons, Scottie, software, Spock, Stanley Kubrick, Star Trek, the end of the world, the last Gemini mission, the moon, the New Millennium, the Starship USS enterprise, this perspective, turn of the century, Where is My Jetcar?
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