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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 3:45 pm
by Joker
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.
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 4:09 pm
by Sandrat
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...
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 10:39 pm
by des
I would love to lead a group like that.
I think I am going to work on a grant for space sciences in the summer at least.
--des
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:20 pm
by CastAway
Huh, those novels actually sound like something I really would have enjoyed when I was younger! Shame they stopped publishing them.
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Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 12:06 pm
by Benji
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!!
That book was recently featured on the blog
Awful Library Books.