Hotdog wrote:i remember back in the 80's when the Young Astronauts was a club you could actually join. i still have the patches, posters, and other stuff from that club somewhere.
Well, yeah. It's totally how Kathryn Fairly knew all about Andie Bergstrom, the first female shuttle pilot.
And Coats got it instead.
U.S. Space Camp, May 1985
Aviation Challenge Staff, 1996-1997
"Livin' in fear's just another way of dyin' before your time." -- Drive-By Truckers
Hotdog wrote:i remember back in the 80's when the Young Astronauts was a club you could actually join. i still have the patches, posters, and other stuff from that club somewhere.
Still is a club you can join, just much harder to find. There was a Young Astronauts Club that met in the Challenger Space Center in Arizona betwen 2001 and 2003 at least...
"You made a fool out of young lieutenants. That's not against Army regulations."
orion8 wrote:one of my favorite books as a kid was Space Camp:The Great Adventure for NASA Hopefuls by Anne Baird. I used to look at the pictures for hours on end!!