KI4MVP
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One of my earliest, clearest childhood memories is the Apollo program. I watched (with the whole world) as Neil Armstrong took that first step.
My first job after college was at NASA during the space shuttle years. I worked in a department who developed non destructive testing techniques to test the heat shields for reuse. My job was to write the software to run the experiments and help analyze the results. I clearly remember where I was (headed to lunch with a coworker) when I heard about the challenger explosion.
One of my coworkers (the next office over) later became an astronaut himself and flew to space twice on the space shuttle for a total of 23 days.
One of the TV shows i watched as a kid was called Space 1999, it was about a colony on the moon in 1999. At the time it seemed obvious that we'd have a permanent presence on the moon by then. It's always been mind boggling to me how we were able to fly to the moon for a 3 1/2 year window and since then have been unable to return.
Today NASA funded a new lunar lander.
My first job after college was at NASA during the space shuttle years. I worked in a department who developed non destructive testing techniques to test the heat shields for reuse. My job was to write the software to run the experiments and help analyze the results. I clearly remember where I was (headed to lunch with a coworker) when I heard about the challenger explosion.
One of my coworkers (the next office over) later became an astronaut himself and flew to space twice on the space shuttle for a total of 23 days.
One of the TV shows i watched as a kid was called Space 1999, it was about a colony on the moon in 1999. At the time it seemed obvious that we'd have a permanent presence on the moon by then. It's always been mind boggling to me how we were able to fly to the moon for a 3 1/2 year window and since then have been unable to return.
Today NASA funded a new lunar lander.
