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Space Shuttle Columbia. Sometime in the 80’s. I pulled my kids out of school to see the shuttle land at Barksdale AFB. These are bad scans of slides or scans of bad slides :o)
Not much holding it to it’s momma
Tile problems even back then
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These are actually stills pulled from a homemade video made in the 80’s. It’s nice to have connections :o)
Technically you can still see the SR-71 Blackbird in static displays but they are hollowed out shells. This one flew. Good lord that thing was fast. The time from burner to gone was ridiculous… I wish I would’ve had the gear then that I have today.. maybe not come to think of it…
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The shuttle and blackbird pictures are great, imagine the Zapruder film and JFK, it’s part of history. The day Challenger exploded was a dark day for NASA and the world, the Shuttle Discovery, and the Apollo disaster as well. As a youngster in school I remember that the reuseable rocket booster system, and the reuseable re-entry vehicle type plane where the future. The Shuttle was the answer. I remember going to the Spokane Worlds Fair, I found two publications that I could purchase there. One was an indepth manual about Skylab, the other was an advertizing brochure for the future Shuttle Program, and this was in the 70’s. The Shuttle was the vehicle of the future. It would give us the ability to build the space station. The space station would be a platform to launch future Moon, Mars, planetary, exploration, and colinization missions. I find it incredible that both the programs are over and a part of the past.
It is amazing to me that there is an effort to select a group of people to go to and colonize Mars. By the way the Mars Mission is a one way trip…..Is it really that hard to find a mate here on Earth?
I heard that President Bush, # 41, the older, flew in a Blackbird once, he had to make a meeting……… 🙂
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Epic stuff…………..as a kid grew up,like American kids,with the Apollo missions…what with the cold war and moon landings was a pretty exciting time
The shuttles were amazing…real shame that the money and political will seems lacking at present
As for the Blackbird…consider yourself lucky that your not doing between 2 and 20…….she is beautiful
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You should see the big print that I have of the Blackbird just as it pulled away from a tanker. I used to know a KC135 tanker maintenance group Staff Sgt. at Barksdale AFB. He was always giving me stuff… but he couldn’t wrangle a ride in a “buff’ or a “tanker” for me. Slacker :o)
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Gripping images, @michael-lloyd. I remember it well.
This is the last image I took of our beloved rental cottage of 20 years. A couple of months after I took this, (this past July) the owners moved the 100 year old Cape Cod cottage back about 50 steps away from the shoreline to save it from the ravaging tide on the Bay. I will miss sitting on the porch basking in the light of the sunset.
And this is the view from outside the cottage door. Never to be taken again from this particular perspective.
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I can see why you would miss that cottage, @karamen, it must’ve been a beautiful place to live….
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Ha! Love the clock image!
Gorgeous cabin! Now you can make new memories :o)
I’ll be in Maine in July. It’ll be my first time in Maine. I’ve got a 4 day printing class and the rest of the two weeks that I’m there is all mine :o) I’m staying at a guest house in Friendship, ME and “being educated” (I hope) in Cushing, ME. The only thing that I’m not looking forward to is the extra long drive up and back but a the same time I might get some decent photo ops.
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Thankfully, we will be renting the same cottage again this summer, so we will get to enjoy the same beach, @tersha. Just won’t be able to view it from the porch. Sounds like a fun time, @michael-lloyd, as long as you can take your time with the drive.
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