[X] My Assistant

[belleraphon1]

Well said Stu! I had the same thrill from Voyager and Galileo. And on top of that there is Ganymede and Callisto... forgive me folks, but there is something very intriguing to me about the sublimating seltzer surface of Callisto, and the tectonics on Ganymede...... and how the freak does Callisto have an ocean when it formed too cold to differentiate.?

We stand to learn do much...

Craig ... 72 in 2025

[vjkane]

Craig ... 72 in 2025

I wonder if this board has a bi-modal age distribution? Those of us in our 50s who got hooked with Viking and Voyager and those in their 20s & 30s who got hooked with the recent wealth of missions.

[dvandorn]

You know, I've read every history of NASA in the 1950s and 1960s that has ever been published, I think, and I've never ever run across any cites to the theory that Kennedy was trying to move the Space Task Group (STG, forerunner to the Manned Spacecraft Center) to MIT. In fact, I've read that there was considerable negative reaction to locating any major new NASA centers at existing universities, since NASA was to be concerned with practical engineering R&D and not "ivory tower" scientific pursuits.

The only reason NASA accepted the "loan" of land from Rice University upon which the MSC (now JSC) was built is that this land was located relatively far away from the existing Rice campus, and that there would be no Rice presence at the new Center. MSC was, however, built to resemble a college campus on the off chance that NASA might decide to give up manned space flight within a few years, at which point they could give Rice back the land, and the buildings would be usable as college campus buildings.

-the other Doug