From: cmadams@hiwaay.net (Chris Adams)
Once upon a time, <zofran@deepthot.org> said:
>Jay and I whad a fabulous time in your town! Sorry you missed it, the >science
programming was topnotch (Storey Musgrave! Sy Liebergot!
>squee!). We also spent time with some B5 fans!
I love listening to the astronauts' stories. We have a dinner here
every summer where we sit under the Saturn V rocket; it started as a
"Saturn/Apollo reunion" for the old engineers (they take a group picture
at the end every year, sadly of a shrinking group), and now it is a
"Manned Space Flight Celebration". They have a NASA project director
talk about the current work (so SLS and Orion now), and then we usually
get a retired astronaut telling some stories.
Sometimes, it is "only" a local astronaut, but we've had a few of the
Apollo guys come back to talk (both at the summer dinner and other
times). Harrison Schmitt (the last man, and only pure scientist, to
walk on the Moon) will be here in a couple of weeks for a dinner to
celebrate the 40th anniversary of the last manned Moon landing.
So on the convention subject: did anybody come down for Dragon*Con this
year? Anybody planning (or thinking) about next year? I know it has
grown too big for some folks, but it is still a lot of fun IMHO.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
--- Internet Rex 2.31
* Origin: Deep Thought (1:2320/101)
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