Posted on 11/27/2009 4:32:05 AM PST by Doogle
Excellent, J. Thank you.
Yeah. Me too. I also wanted to be an astronaut, but the closest I ever got was in college when I worked as an intern with people at JPL who regularly got to fly in the Vomit Comet. My department head, Taylor Wang, became the first civilian to fly on the space shuttle.
The space program probably made my life. In my earliest years in school I was considered borderline retarded. I wasn't stupid, just bored with mundane things and my developed interest in the moon shots, astronomy and engineering changed my life.
Not all government spending is evil, but dang it, if it had been left to private enterprise, I would have been in space by now ... The 37,000 feet on a trans-Pacific Ocean flight will have to do, I suppose.
That's why the good folks who write the avionics software for those magnificent machines get paid the big bucks.
We lose too many pilots in test plane crashes, but I'll bet we haven't lost nearly as many men in aerospace as the Portuguese lost developing the sea route to Asia.
I was asked to get flight qauled but turned it down, Its a long story but I didn’t trust the airframe or pilot LoL
Happy Thanksgiving to you, too!
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