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On Jun 1, 2008 5:19 PM Rob Briscoe wrote:
I saw the STS-124 launch live from U.S. 1. This was a first time for me and it was an awesome and emotional experience.
I have been interested in Space and Space Travel since I was about six years old in about 1958. One of the early Soviet Sputnik missions put a small dog into orbit. A cartoon about this appeared in a Rhodesian newspaper. (Rhodesia, now called Zimbabwe, is the small country just north of South Africa across the Limpopo river. It is the country where I grew up and went to junior school and high school.)
I asked my Dad what the cartoon was about. He explained it to me and I was hooked on Space and Space Travel. I avidly read books about the Solar System and the Planets and the coming Space Age. Rhodesia got TV in the early sixties and I watched (not live) every Space launch that I could.
In 1969 when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon I was in my junior year at high school. The Eagle landed on the Moon during a physics class. We had no live TV coverage but the whole class clustered around a shortwave radio and we listened to the lunar landing as broadcast by the Voice of America. When we heard the words "Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed", we all cheered. Mankind had set foot on another world for the first time.
As Discovery lifted off the launch pad yesterday evening the glare of the rockets was dazzling. When the spacecraft was about ten to fifteen degrees above the horizon, the roaring thunder of the rocket engines rolled over us from across the Indian River. What magnificent raw power. Power to take us into Space and out to the Stars.
I cried.
This was a wonderful wonderful experience. Thank you NASA.
Best wishes to the crew of Discovery and the other NASA mission staff for a successful mission and a safe return.
Regards,
Rob Briscoe
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Jun 4, 2008 2:20 pm
Greetings to
(Space Shuttle Discovery STS-124 Mission Commander): Commander Mark Kelly of West Orange, NJ,
(Space Shuttle Discovery STS-124 Mission Pilot) : Commander Ken Ham of Plainfield, NJ and
(Returning Space Station Harmony Expedition 17 Flight Engineer):
Mission Specialist-5 Garrett Reisman of Parsippany, NJ
from fellow Jersey Boy : Rob Briscoe of Bloomingdale, NJ. :D
Greetings also to non-Jersey crew members,
especially Mission Specialist-1 Karen Nyberg who I consider to be cute. :D <3 (heart)
What kind of art do you enjoy, Karen? Do you paint? :) <3
What kind of dogs do you have? :) <3
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Is there an electronic keyboard instrument that sounds like a piano but that is much lighter and much more portable than a piano? :) <3
It would be great to have such an instrument on Space Station Harmony or even on the Space Shuttle so you guys could have sing alongs after the day's work is done. :D <3
How would you play a piano in weightlessness? :) <3
Three of the ten humans currently in LEO are from NJ! :D
New Jersey Rules in Space! :D
You guys make me very proud. :D
Welcome back to Earth Garrett. :)
Looking forward to consorting with women again after two months in LEO? ;)
Best wishes for a successful mission and a safe return. :)
I am on a once-in-a-lifetime road trip around America. :)
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My Great Trek. :D
Your launch was the only time and place constraint of my trip: :)
I had to be in Titusville at 5:02 pm on Saturday evening to watch you blast off into orbit. :}
From now on it takes as long as it takes; I get there when I get there. :D
I leave Titusville for Clearwater and Savannah on Fri, Jun 6. :D
You going home to Vining, MN after the mission, Karen? :D <3
Regards,
Rob Briscoe
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