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nasaman58
post Apr 18 2005, 01:52 AM
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I just joined this community last night, and I'm just curious about some of the people here. I'm only 19 years old, but I'm more interested in all things space than anyone I've ever met. Just out of curiosity, what are people's ages in this forum? biggrin.gif
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Pete B.
post Apr 19 2005, 03:48 AM
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Dropping out of lurker mode:

Although I am absolutely incredulous over this fact, I’m 55. I work as a government technical information specialist with the library at NASA Goddard. I’ve mostly spent the last 15 years managing the book, journal, and database/search engine collections and resources. Before getting into the library field, I got an M.S. in geology, mainly dealing with planetary topics: impact cratering and lunar soils. Another grad student and I worked on soils from Apollo’s 15 and 17, including a portion of this sample from the Station 6 boulder: http://store1.yimg.com/I/skyimage_1839_1990028

I grew up in Huntsville Alabama. My father started working for the Von Braun team in 1954, moved over to NASA Marshall in 1960 and stayed until he retired in 1990. I think, but am not entirely certain, that he fabricated and assembled the mechanical solar system model (orrey) that was a prop in the short films on space exploration that Walt Disney produced in the mid-50’s. He also fabricated some parts for the rocket that launched Explorer 1. From one end of our yard we could look out some 10-12 km to the Saturn V engine test stands for the several hot firings that were conducted at Marshall. I’ve seen 3 launches: the second unmanned Saturn V from some VIP stands (but not at the VAB); STS 8, and as we were driving south on past the Cape during a family vacation to Florida, a rocket took off, catching us completely by surprise. I later found out that it was Mariner 7!

One final comment, to echo what RedSky said – I attended a number of the Lunar and Planetary Science conferences in Houston in the 70’s. One of them was the 1979 meeting, which happened a few weeks after Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter. The poster sessions were the first chance that many of us had to see better photos of the planet and satellites than the grainy half-tone images in the newspapers. So all of you “youngsters” with your fancy-schmantzy web and jpegs and tiffs of Mars and Saturn on your computer screens every morning, you don’t know how easy you have it. In my day we actually had to drive or fly to other places to see that kind of stuff! biggrin.gif

And PaleBlueDot – this may not be your kind of music but here is a clip of a song Pale Blue Dot http://vinylkings.com/palebluedot.htm .
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post Apr 19 2005, 02:41 PM
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QUOTE (Pete B. @ Apr 19 2005, 03:48 AM)
One final comment, to echo what RedSky said – I attended a number of the Lunar and Planetary Science conferences in Houston in the 70’s.  One of them was the 1979 meeting, which happened a few weeks after Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter.  The poster sessions were the first chance that many of us had to see better photos of the planet and satellites than the grainy half-tone images in the newspapers. 

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Hey Pete B., was it you I was talking to about this exact topic at LPSC last month? I too got my fiirst good look at the Voyager Jupiter images, including the mind-boggling Io plume pictures, at the 1979 LPSC poster sessions- something I'll never forget.

I too am amazed at the wealth of talent on this board- folks with such a wide range of "day jobs" rivaling JPL in their image processing virtuosity. There have been talented amateur astronomers for centuries, but I think the generosity of the Athena team in making their raw data available to the public, and the Cassini project's decision to follow suite, is giving birth to a new breed, right here- the amateur planetary scientist. These are indeed exciting times!

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post Apr 19 2005, 02:53 PM
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I am 42, living in the USA, I am British though. I operate an old Unisys Mainframe, and we will shortly be moving over to an Enterprise Server. I saw Armstrong step onto the Moon and have been interested in Space ever since. My father in law actually worked at Stennis Space Center, testing Apollo and Shuttle Main Engine's.
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