‘Obviously A Major Malfunction’: 28 years ago today. 20140128

[Simon]

Originally Posted by artwilliams

Not a single one of us said "I was too young to remember" or or "I wasn't born yet". We're a bunch of old farts!

Yep, guilty as charged. Hell, I was in kindergarten when brave (crazy) men were still going into space as the payload of a missile.


On May 5, 1961, NASA Astronaut Alan Shepard piloted his Freedom 7 Mercury capsule in a 15-minute sub-
orbital flight, becoming the first American in space. The flight carried him to an altitude of 116 statute miles.

When I was a kid I believed we'd have settlements on the moon and on Mars by now. Unfortunately we've been far too busy wasting the funding that would have required by fighting amongst ourselves without pause.

Stupid earthlings.