Hardly anyone remembers the Vanguard!

Pop worked as a science guy at McGregor Range and White Sands. On Saturdays I would go to the desert and watch them test the old Nike systems, On Sundays I would go to Juarez and watch the bull fights. He was so cheap - we always sat on the "sunny" side of the arena.

The Chinese Control Room looked like the old Apollo Mission Control.

JFK's educational push stole all my free time. I was born to be a loafer and a C student. JFK took that away from me:-)



>Terry;
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>When I was stationed at Orlando Air Force Base in 1960-61 I would listen to the short wave radio from the Cape. "Count down, count down, ten minus five minutes"! We knew when a launch would occur and go outside to face east. Up went the shot and you could see the trail as it went. Cool! :)
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>Tom
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>>http://english.people.com.cn/200510/12/eng20051012_214001.html
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>>Any of you ancient enough to remember NASA satillite and Mercury launches on the B&W TV before heading to school should get CCTV9's cable signal. Lot's of exciting stuff going on in China.