from my online journal as 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.
from the private journal of Kerry Burgess: 04/04/11 4:30 AM
From 11/2/1965 ( ) To 5/19/1981 ( ) is 5677 days
From 3/3/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birthdate US ) To 9/17/1974 ( the United States Navy F-14 Tomcat fighter jet aircraft enters active service in the United States Navy fleet and I am the first United States Navy F-14 Tomcat Commander Air Group as United States Navy Commander Thomas Reagan ) is 5677 days
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=43837
Remarks at a White House Luncheon Honoring the Astronauts of the Space Shuttle Columbia
May 19, 1981
The President. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. And before we say anything at all or I make any remarks—because there are many here who probably don't know that in addition to the men we're honoring today, that there are in our midst, as a great part of this audience, many who have been those pioneers out into space, our astronauts going back to the very beginning of the program. Could I ask that all of you who fit that description, all of you, to please stand up?
Well, we're in very distinguished company, believe me. Commander Young and Captain Crippen, all the world held its breath in the silent moments of your reentry, and when we finally heard your voices again, all the world knew America had begun a new age.
www.teepublic.com -the-space-pope
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Futurama
https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/332395818937_/Usmc-2D-Second-Assault-Amphibian-Battalion-Aav-Yatyas.jpg
USMC 3RD THIRD Assault Amphibian Aav Battalion
- posted by Kerry Burgess 12:42 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 01 December 2018
