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:: Monday, May 12, 2003 ::

Field Trip Report
Alright, I've been back for a few days, but haven't gotten around to giving a report on my travel.
Florida was wonderful. The weather was wonderful. The beach was wonderful.
The symposium was great. It was really interesting getting the four different perspectives of such an amazing experience. I had seen Gene Cernan before with his Apollo 17 crewmate Jack Schmitt, but it was great getting to hear from astronauts who had participated in other Apollo missions as well.
It's also nice to attend an event like this one or the one at Marshall I went to where the astronauts are "among friends," and you get a real feeling for the cameraderie.
I find it interesting though when Apollo-era and before astronauts talk about what NASA should be doing. John Young, of course, has good an understanding of the Shuttle program as anyone, but you have to wonder when some of the others talk about the superiority of the old ways of doing things or the flaws in the new ways just what exactly motivates that.
Due to the museum's superstrict AstroNazis, we weren't able to get autographs from any of the panelists, but there were to other astronauts there that we were able to talk to and get autographs from.
One was Bob Crippen, the pilot on the very first Space Shuttle flight. He and John Young were the first Americans in space during my lifetime, and so it was a real honor for me to get to meet him.
The other, though, was Mercury astronaut Wally Schirra, and it was just amazing to get to meet him. I had never even hoped to get to meet one of the original seven astronauts, figuring I would never get the chance, so that was a huge privelage to get to shake hands with him.
When I talked to Schirra, I told him I worked for an education Web site at Marshall, and that we were working on astronaut profiles for this summer and I'd love to talk to him about it. He says he'll tell me the easy way to get him, and I'm thinking that this is so cool that Wally Schirra's going to give me insider access to him. Working at Marshall is so cool, right? Well, it turns out what he's doing is blowing me off, he's just so cool about it that it takes me forever to realize it. Guy like that's been around the world a few times, you know. So anyway, he says to just run an internet search on him, and asks if I've done that. I'm thinking he means he has a Web site that would tell how to get in touch with him, and say no, I haven't. What he means is that rather than getting in touch with him, I should just look up stuff about him on the internet. When I say I haven't done that, he proceeds to tell me how to use Google. Here I am, an internet professional, being taught how to use search engines by one of the Mercury Seven. Just kind of an odd, cool moment. Of course, from now on, I'm going to pretend I didn't know how to do that before, and anytime search engines come up, I'm going to mention the fact that one of America's original astronauts taught me to use them. The sad thing is, those that know me, know I'm not kidding.


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