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Bagpipes, Amazing Grace and Earth

apolloproject — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:42:00 +0000

I hope you will be pleasantly surprised by this. Just click on the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V84STSWVp3g&feature=related

We love the pipes. I am so glad to see and hear so many bands.

We have been to the Edinburgh Military Tattoo. That was in 1991.
We had a piper in our family. Oh, my what wonderful sounds.
You should hear a band piping “Amazing Grace” especially the U.S. Marines.

The FAKE ORDER for a Test Stand

apolloproject — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:38:00 +0000

This is so hilarious, I just had to post this for all of you to read.
I received this in an email. I do not think English is his first language. This is the 2nd one I have received and a friend found out it is a tire company in the midwest. Keep reading..

Hello Good Day
This is Scott Robinson,
With regards to your Company i am sending this email to order some ( Test Stands),
i would like to know the type and sizes you have in stock and get me the sales price of it and i would tell you the quantity i would purchase, and also if you accept credit card as a form of payment .Stay Bless .Scott Robinson 11352 South State Street Chicago, IL 60628
Here was my reply: A Test Stand will cost you 1 (one) Billion Dollars and you will have to personally retrieve it. You might not be able to get it as they are buried deeply in bed rock.

Apollo Adventures at the Cape

apolloproject — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:29:00 +0000

Hi Sara! I worked at the Cape from June 1965 to May 1970 so I saw everything from the Saturn to the Titan. I worked in the Headquarters Bldg. and my first boss and the bosses under him were all very cool with letting us go outside to watch a launch if it was special. In fact, our big boss encouraged it. One day, we learned the Titan was going and just a few minutes before liftoff, one of the girls in my office, myself, and her sister from another office ran downstairs and jumped into her sister’s car and we took off down to get as close to the pad as possible and listening to the countdown on radio. As we were at this lane on our left that went to the pad, we quickly parked and ran over to this mound (we learned later that it was a camera site and as close to the pad as we could have possibly gotten) and stood there and watched a spectacular shot that was so bright it almost blinded us as we didn’t have our shades with us. No one said anything to us as we worked for Col. Petrone and his nickname was “The Rock!” He was a good guy though. Another time, one of the big ones was going and just as I got to entrance to my building, several people had gathered outside so I waited and shortly, it lifted off and the glass windows and doors in our building were moving like in shock waves! It almost gave me chills. The dog, Lassie made a couple movies out there and I was fortunate enough to get an autographed (paw print) of Lassie along with a nice photo. I still have it tucked away somewhere. I have to get busy and find all that stuff and get rid of some of my junk. I also have a packet of first day launch covers with stamps from several launches. You probably have a lot of mementos from your Rocket Scientist days. Those were the days, weren’t they?
You bet-this from Hazel Lewis. Her husband was an engineer and he and his team worked on the Launch Pads. Cool! Huh!

The Biggest Explosions in the Universe

apolloproject — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:13:00 +0000

Hi, All! My book, “The Biggest Explosions in the Universe” is now listed for sale on Amazon.com, AbeBooks.com and Alibris.com.
This is about the birth and death of stars written for young adults/teens. It is an easy, fun read. Stars sing, shine in bright colors and dance. There are weird, wacky and mysterious stars.
Are there bigger explosions than supernovas? What happens in a black hole?
Could exotic life exist in space?
How will our sun die?

Here is the link to Amazon.com where the book is for sale:

http://runurl.com/xx.php?pqo

Did You Know?

apolloproject — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:32:00 +0000

Did you know that we women who worked as Aerospace Engineers and other Engineers, Scientists and Researchers were the FIRST women in the world to do this? The Apollo program hired women with math degrees. We worked at Marshall Flight Center, Johnson Space Center, Cape Canaveral and at Michoud in New Orleans. There were a few who worked for NASA but we mostly worked for the contractors. I worked for Boeing, others worked for Chrysler, North American Aviation and others. NASA was so small, it had to hire 23,000 contractors who in turn hired close to 400,000 employees. NASA wants you to think that they did everything including building the infrastructure, the launch pads, all the stages and every nut and bolt. It is funny that when NASA trots out the astronauts,
it is a dog and pony show which has been going on for 40 years. )
We women were the “peons in the pits” and we are “lost in space”

Look at the Older Posts

apolloproject — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:21:00 +0000

Check out the Older Posts for great information and pictures.
Look at the list on the left of this post.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

apolloproject — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:28:00 +0000

I found some more women Aerospace Engineers that worked on Apollo.
We created a miracle and no one knows. Interesting information will be revealed in 2009.
In the meantime have a wonderful holiday season.

The Miracle that was APOLLO

apolloproject — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:44:00 +0000

Forty years ago there were many people who were very excited about a new endeavor for mankind. In the late 1950s and early 1960s a group of visionaries convinced an American president that we must mount a great effort to take men to the moon. It was begun and humanity was never the same. In 1969 two men landed on the moon and humanity was changed forever. We had taken our first steps to the stars.
Humans are explorers and adventurers. We have the genes. They are inborn in us. We are a curious species and desire to know how things work, what is over that hill and what is it like to climb the tallest mountain?

Newspaper Article about Sara

apolloproject — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:54:00 +0000

Thought you might like to read this.

http://tallahassee.com/article/20081126/NEWS01/811260353

The United States Naval Academy

apolloproject — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:22:00 +0000

What a wonderful institution! I was priviledged to speak before the Midshipmen on Wed. Nov. 12th about Apollo. They were all very interested and hardly knew anything about the Apollo project. I was happy to tell them about the wonderful role the U.S. Navy had in the Apollo Recovery ships. There were six graduates who became astronauts: Charlie Duke (Apollo 16), Donn Eisele (Apollo 7), Jim Lovell (Apollo 8 and Apollo 13), Wally Schirra (Apollo 7), Alan Shepard (Apollo 14) and Tom Stafford (Apollo 10).
Jim Lovell did a very special thing on Apollo 8. I will always love him for that. It was Earthrise. It was his words.