by me, Kerry Burgess, 08/09/2025 1:03 PM
(built NOT by that galactic-imbecile Elon Musk, that poseur, and his current ExplodingX)
Built for reliability.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/crew-10-splashes-down-pacific-153943877.html
Yahoo! News
United Press International
Crew-10 splashes down in Pacific after return from ISS
Simon Corlett
Sat, August 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM PDT
Aug. 9 (UPI) -- The four members of Crew-10 made a successful water landing off the coast of California Saturday morning, with splashdown taking place as scheduled at 11:33 a.m. EDT.
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 9/28/2013 ( rental car from Budget returned by me from Seattle to Spokane, where I have remained since 09/26/2013 - my apartment move-in date for 09/27/2013 not arranged by me ) is 19933 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/30/2020 ( ) is 19933 days
From 5/16/1992 ( the landing of the first flight of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 5/30/2020 ( ) is 10241 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/16/1993 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Nova"::"Roller Coaster!" ) is 10241 days
From 3/8/1988 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, while enlisted paygrade E-5, designated Fire Controlman Petty Officer Second Class (FC2), my official enlisted US Navy documents includes: Terrier MK 152 guided-missiles Fire Control Computers Complex Operator (UNIVAC digital-computers Mk152 Terrier System for, primarily, SM2-ER {Extended Range} Standard Missiles ordnance) - CF-division, Missile Plot, USS Wainwright CG-28, US Navy, following my graduation Naval Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia ) To 5/30/2020 ( ) is 11771 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/24/1998 ( ) is 11771 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_Dragon_Endeavour
Crew Dragon Endeavour (serial number C206) is the first operational Crew Dragon reusable spacecraft manufactured and operated by SpaceX. The spacecraft is named after Space Shuttle Endeavour. It first launched on 30 May 2020
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https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/special-message-the-congress-urgent-national-needs
The American Presidency Project
John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States: 1961 ‐ 1963
Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs
May 25, 1961
First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.
https://www.spaceline.org/united-states-manned-space-flight/space-shuttle-mission-program-fact-sheets/sts-89/
https://www.nasa.gov/history/SP-4225/documentation/thomas-letters/letters.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-89
From 11/28/1964 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Inheritors - Part 2" ) To 2/19/1997 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut and my 4th official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall I begin repairing the US Hubble Telescope while in space and orbit of the planet Earth - the Hubble Space Telescope placed back into its own orbit of the planet Earth ) is 11771 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/24/1998 ( ) is 11771 days
From 3/24/1990 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, my official US Navy documents includes: "I hereby request to be granted 51.0 days separation leave" for Honorable Discharge from active duty US Navy and to begin civilian employment with Ketterman's in Greenville, South Carolina ) To 1/24/1998 ( ) is 2863 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/4/1973 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: Remarks at the Swearing In of William E. Colby as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency ) is 2863 days
IMDb
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Quotes
[last lines]
[Kirk's final Captain's Log]
Captain James T. Kirk: Captain's Log, stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise of the Starship Enterprise under my command. This ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun, and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man... where no *one* has gone before.
excerpts
From 11/21/1998 ( my brief return to Rock Hill, South Carolina, following successful employment interview during travel to Seattle as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation beginning 12/07/1998 until 02/06/2004 ) To 9/26/2001 ( ) is 1040 days
1040 = 520 + 520
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/6/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The City on the Edge of Forever" ) is 520 days
Star Trek: Enterprise
"Broken Bow"
Season 1 Episode 1
AIRED: 9/26/01
album: "The Moon & Antarctica" (2000)
Modest Mouse
"Third Planet"
My boss just quit the job
Says he's going out to find blind spots
And he'll do it
The third planet is sure that they're being watched
By an eye in the sky that can't be stopped
Search Date variable: 01/24/1998
Event Date variable: 12/07/2004
Results
From 1/24/1998 ( ) To 12/7/2004 ( ) is 2509 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/15/1972 ( premiere USA TV series "Ghost Story" ) is 2509 days
https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/dec/HQ_04388_young_retires.html
NASA official website
NASA News
Headquarters, Washington
Johnson Space Center, Houston
Dec. 7, 2004
RELEASE : 04-388
NASA Space Pioneer John Young, Astronaut Without Equal, Retires
Space pioneer John W. Young, a man who flew twice to the moon, walked on its surface and commanded the first Space Shuttle mission, is retiring.
by me, Kerry Burgess, January 06, 2018 at 1:35 am (Pacific Time USA - Spokane)
Jeez.
That was the worst one yet.
I didn't think my sleeping mind was capable of dreaming up such horror on its own.
Not sure if I can go back to sleep now.
from my online journal as Kerry Burgess
January 06, 2018 2:50 pm (Pacific Time USA - Spokane)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/john-young-legendary-astronaut-who-walked-moon-dies-87-n835226
NBC NEWS
NEWS
JAN 6 2018, 2:25 PM ET
John Young, legendary NASA astronaut who twice walked on moon, dies at 87
by ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Legendary astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon and later commanded the first space shuttle flight, has died, according to a statement from NASA. Young was 87.
The space agency said Young died Friday night at his home in Houston following complications from pneumonia.
Young was the only agency astronaut to go into space as part of the Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle programs, and the first to fly into space six times. He was the ninth man to walk on the moon.
Related: The Making of an Astronaut
Young was in NASA's second astronaut class, chosen in 1962, along with the likes of Neil Armstrong, Pete Conrad and James Lovell.
"Today, NASA and the world have lost a pioneer. Astronaut John Young's storied career spanned three generations of spaceflight," NASA administrator Robert Lightfoot said in an emailed statement Saturday.
"John was one of that group of early space pioneers whose bravery and commitment sparked our nation's first great achievements in space," he added.
Counting his takeoff from the moon in 1972 as commander of Apollo 16, Young's blastoff tally stood at seven, for decades a world record.
He flew twice during the two-man Gemini missions of the mid-1960s, twice to the moon during NASA's Apollo program, and twice more aboard the new space shuttle Columbia in the early 1980s.
Young spent his last 17 years at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in management, focusing on safety issues. He retired at the end of 2004.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_structure_of_the_Central_Intelligence_Agency
Organizational structure of the Central Intelligence Agency
From Wikipedia
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), informally known as "the Agency" or "the Company", is a United States intelligence agency that "provides objective intelligence on foreign countries." The CIA is part of the United States Intelligence Community, and is organized into numerous organizational subdivisions
Battlestar Galactica - tv miniseries - 12/08/2003, 12/09/2003
(from internet transcript)
(Galactica. Caption: Galactica Starboard Landing Bay, Decommissioning Ceremony)
Doral: I'd like to thank you all again for being here today, and Elosha, thank you very much for those wonderful words. Next is a ceremonial fly-by by the last Galactica battle squadron led by Captain Lee Adama. (Music play, ships fly over, people applaud.) And now it is my great pleasure to introduce the last commander of the Battlestar Galactica, Commander Adama. (applause)
Adama: Thank you very much. The Cylon War is long over, yet we must not forget the reasons why so many sacrificed so much in the cause of freedom. The cost of wearing the uniform can be high, but... (pauses) Sometimes it's too high. You know, when we fought the Cylons, we did it to save ourselves from extinction. But we never answered the question: why? Why are we as a people worth saving? We still commit murder, because of greed, spite, jealousy, and we still visit all of our sins upon our children. (we hear the voiceover in Apollo's ship) We refuse to accept the responsibility for anything that we've done. Like we did with the Cylons. We decided to play god, create life. (We see Starbuck listening in her cell.) When that life turned against us, we comforted ourselves in the knowledge that it really wasn't our fault, not really. You cannot play god, then wash your hands of the things that you've created. Sooner or later, the day comes when you can't hide from the things that you've done anymore.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: July 25, 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-71
The primary objectives of this flight were to rendezvous and perform the first docking between the Space Shuttle and the Russian Space Station Mir on June 29.
I just realized that the Jeep Grand Cherokee I used to have could represent the space shuttle. Something about that lift gate on the back makes me think about the cargo hold on the shuttle. And that J.G.C. was white too. Could 1995 be the first time I was the commander of a shuttle mission?
[excerpt ends - by me, Kerry Burgess, 07/25/2006]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep_Grand_Cherokee_%28ZJ%29
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 5:39 PM Pacific-timezone USA Saturday 08/09/2025
