Thursday, March 01, 2007

Houston, we've had a problem

As I have been writing, I think it was 11/2/75 when I launched into space at the age of 16 years to intercept a comet in the outer solar system. On the date 7/3/92, I was twice as old as on the date 11/2/75.

The number of days from 3/3/59 to 11/2/75 was 6088.
The number of days from 11/2/75 to 7/3/92 was 6088.

On 7/3/92, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was 59.3 years old. Ginsburg joined the U.S. Supreme Court in 1993 after being nominated by President Clinton.


President Clinton nominated Stephen Breyer for the U.S. Supreme Court in 1994. Stephen Breyer was born 8/15/38, according to the linked article.

On 7/15/68, Stephen Breyer was precisely 359 months old. 5 months, 9 days, later, was 12/24/68, the first time humans, with Apollo 8, entered orbit of Earth's moon.

Stephen Gerald Breyer (born August 15, 1938) is an American attorney, political figure, and jurist. Since 1994, he has served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.



Apollo 8 was the second manned mission of the Apollo space program, in which Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders became the first humans to orbit around the Moon. It was also the first manned launch of the Saturn V rocket.
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After launching on December 21, 1968, the crew took three days to travel to the Moon, which they orbited for 20 hours. While in lunar orbit the crew made a Christmas Eve television broadcast in which they read from the book of Genesis. It was the most watched broadcast to date.