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I’ve followed your blog for about a year, and I have to thank you for all that you have researched and written for us. My background seems to be a bit different from yours, but I definitely share your fascination with what you appropriately call “Vintage Space.” I work as a tradesman (architectural metal work), and so my career has little to do with the aerospace industry, past or present, but for some reason, about two years ago, I started to become interested in the stories of our beginnings in manned space flight. I hate to admit that YouTube was what pointed me in that direction, but that’s how it happened. I’m not sure exactly what I saw first, probably some Apollo footage, but soon after I began to just hunger for information about early US and Soviet space programs. I’ve since purchased and quickly read every book I could find on the subject, including many books written by early astronauts, the last of which was “All American Boys” by Walt Cunningham. It’s all been really amazing stuff to learn about and I really appreciate your many posts/articles because they often go into detail about interesting subjects that are only given cursory mention in many of the books I’ve so far read. Your story about the tests with the Rogallo wing is a good example. Congratulations on the new website. I will surely visit it as often as I’ve visited your blog in the past.
I also want to say that I appreciate the attention you have given to the Gemini program, which, to me, is the most fascinating of all; when NASA really seemed to strive, as they learned the techniques needed for Apollo, back in James Webb’s day, before the bureaucracy seemed to get bigger and the budget got smaller. I noted in one post you wrote some months back that you purchased your first model, a Saturn 1B, I believe, and you discussed the various paint schemes that NASA used. You then provided us with photos of every manned launch (and some unmanned) from Mercury through ASTP which I thought was very cool. But I believe you also mentioned somewhere that of all the beautiful birds NASA flew, the sleek lines of the Gemini/Titan were the ones you found most appealing..This too, is an appreciation I share with you, and so I thought you might be interested in this:
http://www.redarrowhobbies.com/GEMINI.html
There are many Gemini/Titan models out there to be had but few that actually fly. This one does and looks just beautiful to me. It’s not cheap as far as models go, so if you want a G/T model but have little interest in the amateur end of rocketry it might be worth looking at some others. For me, it’s perfect because I’m interested in learning about amateur high power rocketry and I think flying one would be fun and a small tribute to a part of human history that I find fills me with both pride and wonder. It’s also about the closest I think I’ll get to being a part of the space program (although one can still dream). I plan to purchase one for myself after I finish a few smaller rocketry projects, and hopefully fly it around the anniversaries of the various Gemini launches. I thought it may be of interest to you given your background. If it is and you do get one, please share with us your experience as you did with the Saturn.
Thank you again for your blog and now your website. Also thank you for the various Carnivals of Space. The many links you provide are all very interesting. I spend hours reading them when they come out. And your latest post on preserving lunar history was superb. I’m a big fan of what you do, please keep it up, you rock!
Well written mate! A agree to the fullest! Good luck with your Gemini rocket, may it soar high!
Great comments. First space flight I remember seeing live was John Glenn on 3rd Mercury flight, 1962. All us school kids were huddled in front of some TVs for the launch. I even visited Houston’s space center in mid 1960′s. Amy does a great job and I’m glad a young person will “carry the fire” of our space flight history.
Hi Amy,
Just a quick note to say Hi, and thanks for the wonderful articles! All the very best from Spain.
Hello Amy,
thank you so much for your great articles! It feels so good to see that there are still people who care and who are ineterested in this topics.
P.S. If you ever stuck during your researches on german rocketry with some german sources, just drop me a line. I will try my best to translate it.
Greetings from Germany,
Marko
I came across this website and thought about you. I typed “space” in the search box and it came back with some cool vintage space news reels.
http://www.britishpathe.com/search/query/space
Fantastic. Thanks for sharing that link!
Dynasoar in an ad: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/Fortune/10-1961/garrett_space_cooling.jpg
Hello Amy!
It’s always a pleasure to read your articles on Vintage Space and Universe Today! They bring a fresh new perspective and an ‘aliveness’ to past space accomplishments. We tend to think of the past as something ‘still’ and ‘frozen’ thing in time, but your articles really flesh out things and make them come alive! Yours and Ben Evans’s articles on America Space, are the best source of information for rediscovering the past under a new light!
Keep up the great work!
Hi Amy: I’m trying to confirm that John Glenn received instruction from John Russell(Pop)Stair as reported in wpg for Mulberry,IN/history. A NASA letter
1966 on file in Clinton Co.,IN, archives, Chaffee/Stair confirms their contact.
Stair did flight instruction at Purdue Aviation and Indianapolis (maybe others)
and instructed & examined me for my private license as a member of Mulbery
Flying Club 1948. My late brother, retired Delta captain, logged several 1/4
& 1/2 hour time with Stair at age 10. Blocks were clamped to peddles. I work-
ed at NASA’s Johnson SC from 1965 to 1973 for the M&O contractor.
Stair was a barnstormer and took my parents for a $1 ea. circle Mulberry flight in his green body, silver winged Waco biplane when I was preschool.
Dollars were hard to come by in those days so my dad elected not to take me for what would have been his 2nd ride. Besides I might not have seen anything from the depths of the cockpit. Please help with the Glenn/Stair conection.
Thanks, Ken
really apollo 18..they are there..:)))))))
Great site, great work! Would love to read what you write about the Soviet manned moon program…
Hi Amy,
I’ve been following your blog for a while now and really enjoy the articles. Just saw your PROP-M video and think it is great. Keep it coming!
Amy, I take it that you’ve by now read the story about Jeff Bezos’ Space Co. recovering Apollo Saturn V rocket engines from sea floor for NASA:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/20/bezos-apollo_n_2917494.html
Regards,
Keith R.
Here’s Bezos website on the Apollo F1 Engine recovery:
http://www.bezosexpeditions.com/updates.html
http://boingboing.net/2013/03/20/apollo-f-1-engines-recovered-f.html
Regards,
Keith R.
may I please use the poor pluto picture for my science project I forgot to do it D:
Imagine my surprise….sitting at a clients office awaiting the start of our meeting when I noticed they had a stack of “vintage” National Geographic’s. Being a space nut…. I zoomed in on a cover of a story on the Gemini Program and felt surreal reading the story headline, “How we plan to get to the moon”. Kinda felt like the Twilight Zone as I was curious of how we felt at a time before we landed on the moon. Picked up the issue, thumbed thru it and came upon a story of the Gemini Paraglider! In your research, I am sure you came across this…but if not…check out the March 1964 issue!!!