Scott Horstman
(Vendor- Backyard Observatories)
08/08/09 02:41 AM
Re: Back to the Moon

Spot on Dave. If it's not a pre curser for us going there then why bother.

Mark that sounds like a cool gathering. Wish you got to talk more to Jaime.

We had a chance to have some beers wih Jack Shaw, who headed up the last Hubble mission, at NEAF a couple years ago. Man did he have some great tales about when he was on the Apollo team too.

We just built an observatory for a fellow in NH who was a mathematician doing orbital mechanics for the Apollo missions and had a pretty big roll in getting Apollo 13 home.

He was pretty mad still that the tank that blew out was a reject from Apollo 8 that they new they had problems with.

Go figure.



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