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Topic: 7/20/2009: collectSPACE's Tenth Anniversary
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spacekid2
Member Posts: 199
From: San Diego, CA, USA
Registered: Jul 2004
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posted 01-02-2009 01:24 PM
   
Robert,I join everyone else in giving congrats for 10 great years. It has been fun to see the cS family grow and also developing friendships over 10 years. I look forward to another 10+ years. --Paul |
KC Stoever
Member Posts: 1012
From: Denver, CO USA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 01-02-2009 02:09 PM
Congratulations, Rob, on your ten-year mark and on the terrific anniversary-year logo. Thank you for creating and fostering such a vibrant online (and IRL) community over such an eventful decade, which has also featured a great migration to new knowledge communities online. cS is clearly one of the most distinguished of the early settlers in this promising new habitat. Congratulations again, and Happy New Year! Kris |
Leon Ford
Member Posts: 309
From: Shreveport, LA, United States
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-02-2009 06:01 PM
Rob,Hard to believe it has been 10 years. Best of luck in the next 10!! Leon |
ColinBurgess
Member Posts: 2031
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 01-02-2009 08:11 PM
The first time I looked into collectSPACE it was a simple matter of curiosity about a relatively new space website. It then became a daily compulsion, while many new and enduring friendships were forged. In more recent years, collectSPACE has been of very considerable assistance to me in initiating a book project that became the Outward Odyssey series for the University of Nebraska Press. With very few exceptions, the authors who accepted the challenge of writing for this series emerged from within the eclectic realms of collectSPACE, and each has surpassed even my wildest hopes.In this way, collectSPACE has become so much more to me than just a nice place to visit; it has become an invaluable resource upon which I am heavily, perhaps even totally reliant. All this is due to the innovative brilliance and dynamism of Robert Pearlman, and I am deeply in his debt. May collectSPACE continue to grow and prosper. Colin |
Mike Dixon
Member Posts: 1397
From: Kew, Victoria, Australia
Registered: May 2003
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posted 01-03-2009 12:34 AM
Well said Colin ....I'd be lost without this site. Learnt so much over the last few years, it's amazing. Thanks Rob |
SpaceSteve
Member Posts: 428
From: San Antonio TX, USA
Registered: Apr 2004
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posted 01-03-2009 01:02 AM
I want to add my congratulations and thanks to Robert and everyone else involved in making collectSPACE THE PLACE for space collectors to go!I know that if it weren't for cS, my collection would not be anywhere near as good as it is. Nearly everything I know about the hobby is a result of this website. As I'm sure it is with all other collectors, this isn't the only space website I frequent, but cS is where I learned of the other websites (with the exception of Novaspace, which is the only one I knew of prior to cS). I also would have never been able to meet and/or interact with so many other collectors if not for cS. Here's hoping that cS and Robert keep going for another 10x10 years!  Steve |
KSCartist
Member Posts: 2896
From: Titusville, FL USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 01-03-2009 06:25 AM
Robert-In reading all of the posts in this thread it dawned on me that my first fell way short in illustrating my appreciation for what you've done with cS. Like many other "cSer's" I turn here for information about so many topics overlooked elsewhere. If I have a question that needs to be answered, I come here. If I have news to share, I come here. If I have an art project that I want to show, I come here. You have not just created a website. You have created a community. That is a powerful thing and you should be very proud. I wish you many, many more years of success and continued growth. I can't wait to see what the 20th anniversary will bring. Godspeed friend,
Tim |
Moonwalker1954
Member Posts: 245
From: Montreal, Canada
Registered: Jul 2004
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posted 01-03-2009 01:21 PM
Robert,Congrats for the 10th anniversary of this wonderful site! I'm sure that in 500 years from now, the 20th Century will be remembered for the 1st step on the Moon and the birth of cS!!!  Here's to many, many more, Pierre-Yves |
john ffoulkes
Member Posts: 146
From: United Kingdom
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 01-04-2009 12:43 PM
Robert
Many congraulations. This site has given me great pleasure over the past eight years I have been visiting it. |
fabfivefreddy
Member Posts: 1067
From: Leawood, Kansas USA
Registered: Oct 2003
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posted 01-04-2009 05:38 PM
A great 10 years! Good job, Robert. Tahir ------------------
www.silicondisc.com |
jkfaust
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posted 01-05-2009 06:41 AM
Congrats Rob! |
Jake
Member Posts: 464
From: Issaquah, WA U.S.A.
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted 01-05-2009 11:11 AM
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Jake Schultz - curator,
Newport Way Air Museum (OK, it's just my home) |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 01-05-2009 05:16 PM
Congratulations Robert! Didn't this start out as just a hobby which lead to a very cool job that we are all very jealous of? Tom
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Richard Easton
Member Posts: 175
From: Winnetka, IL USA
Registered: Jun 2006
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posted 01-05-2009 09:01 PM
Robert,Congratulations on the 10th anniversary of this very useful site! Richard |
BMckay
Member Posts: 3218
From: MA, USA
Registered: Sep 2002
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posted 01-06-2009 07:41 AM
Congratulations on 10 years! Well done! |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2913
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 01-06-2009 04:53 PM
Once again, let me echo a Happy 10th anniversary for CollectSpace! Congratulations on creating a great website devoted to our beloved hobby of collecting space memorabilia and aerospace history. I probably view the website several times every week (perhaps even once or more daily at certain times) and consider cS the #1 space collecting source on the planet. Well done, Robert, and I'll certainly be looking forward to another 10+ years as a proud member, supporter, and contributor. |
Cliff Lentz
Member Posts: 655
From: Philadelphia, PA USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 01-07-2009 11:25 AM
Congrats on ten years! I'm just sorry I missed the first three years. It's just good to know that there are so many other space geeks out there!Cliff |
Aztecdoug
Member Posts: 1405
From: Huntington Beach
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 01-07-2009 01:25 PM
Congrats Rob!Coming up on 10 years now... I don't recall exactly how I got here, but I know I just can't seem to find the way out now either... ------------------
Kind Regards Douglas Henry Enjoy yourself and have fun.... it is only a hobby!
http://home.earthlink.net/~aztecdoug/ |
space4u
Member Posts: 323
From: Cleveland, OH USA
Registered: Aug 2006
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posted 01-07-2009 04:42 PM
Congratulations Robert on your 10 year anniversary. I remember finding out about you on at a website called starport or something before collectspace. I remember that I liked that site a lot and was happy to have found it but when closing that site you said that collectspace would be even better. Well, you have certainly exceeded my expectations and continue to do every day. Thanks so much for helping us all to connect to so many space enthusiasts all over this planet!--Marcy P.S. I love the new logo.
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42986
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-22-2009 01:50 AM
Although I intend to contact each of you individually, I want to publicly express my gratitude to the group of 25 collectSPACE members who came together to present me tonight with a very special collectSPACE 10th anniversary gift. It caught me completely off-guard while finishing my dessert at tonight's Spacefest banquet, when my friend and author Andy Chaikin asked me to join him on the stage. It was there that he explained, before everyone at the banquet -- astronauts, speakers, and attendees -- that my members wanted to present something on behalf of our 10th year. Opening a small box, Andy revealed a Roger Chaffee autograph, one of the very few pre-shuttle era astronaut autographs that was not yet represented in my signed copy of Who's Who in Space. With the signature came a truly wonderful plaque and a card that listed the members who contributed towards the gift on behalf of everyone who reads collectSPACE. To say that I was deeply touched would be an understatement. The autograph is wonderful, the plaque amazing and the presentation before a room of some 400 people -- many of them collectSPACE members and readers -- is a memory I will cherish forever. So to Ray Holt, Florian Noller, Tim Gagnon, Stefan Kontradowitz, Mike Larson, Stephen Beck, Joel Katzowitz, Tahir Rahman, Bob McLeod, Woody Witt, Brian Riehle, Bill Sawchuck, Chris Nicolosi, Mike Behette, Dennis Falci, Scott Schneeweis, Garry Laing, Bob Runge, Rodrigo Duque, Rick Mulheirn, Lou Chinal, Doug Henry, Gary Milgrom, Steven Smith and Colin Burgess, I say, "Thank you!" for your support, your gift and most of all, your friendship. |
WAWalsh
Member Posts: 809
From: Cortlandt Manor, NY
Registered: May 2000
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posted 02-22-2009 08:11 AM
What an outstanding gesture from the 25. A tip of the hat to them. |
xlsteve
Member Posts: 391
From: Holbrook MA, USA
Registered: Jul 2008
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posted 02-23-2009 09:28 AM
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Originally posted by WAWalsh:
What an outstanding gesture from the 25. A tip of the hat to them.
Indeed, a very worthy and appropriate gesture, and well deserved. |
Lunar rock nut
Member Posts: 911
From: Oklahoma city, Oklahoma U.S.A.
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 05-17-2009 06:32 AM
It has been ten years, Robert. How much longer do we have to wait? I for one would like to see a collectSPACE poster hanging at every venue. Full size or a mini poster. Last Saturday while visiting Destination Space at the Omniplex in Oklahoma City I envisioned one displayed on the wall. Not to mention classrooms, etc.Terry |
historyinminiature
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posted 05-17-2009 06:35 AM
Robert, I want to reiterate what everyone else has said here. The job you perform is superhuman, I should know!Best Always,
Stephen |
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