(SNES) Re: some thoughts to share

[Albireo54@aol.com]

Hi Les,

<<This was actually written to answer my wife's question properly.>>

Great comments about the many thrills and dreams provided by space 
exploration!
Of course, if your wife is anything like my ex, she's still asking 
"so...........what do you find so intriguing about a light moving across the 
sky?" Some folks just don't get it, and I suppose never will.  :o(

Several of us down at FDO are in the "over 50" category like yourself and we, 
too, have had the joy of watching space flight and exploration since day one. 
How well I remember Alan Shepards's suborbital flight, and every moment, 
glued to our family TV in the summer of 1969, when Neil Armstrong first set 
foot on the moon - and on live (though very grainy) television! I guess you 
had to live through the whole thing to have a full appreciation of it. Young 
folks today just seem to accept space exploration as though it has been with 
us forever. Well, for them it has!

And I feel just as you do when you say how hard it is to separate space 
flight from astro observing. Just last night, as I finally spotted new comet 
Ikeya -Zhang from my back yard, I was amazed by how many small satellites I 
saw in orbit while sweeping with my binoculars through the SW sky. Near-Earth 
space is just loaded with stuff now! 

Hope you can get out and observe this moon-free weekend! We'll be down at FDO 
as usual tomorrow night.  :o)

Regards, 
Doug 
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