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Topic: So who is the oldest person on this forum?
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Jacques van Oene
Member Posts: 861
From: Houten, The Netherlands
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 02-26-2007 12:23 PM
  
Ok I won't "win" in any catagory, but in 4 1/2 hours (of this writing and European time) I'll be 35 !!  And thank you for your concratulations ------------------
Jacques
www.spacepatches.nl |
Gilbert
Member Posts: 1328
From: Carrollton, GA USA
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 02-26-2007 03:19 PM
I weigh in at 53, just old enough to remember the space age from its beginnings. |
driftingtotheright
unregistered
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posted 02-26-2007 05:11 PM
Same here, Gilbert, at age 57. Recently found July 1969 letters exchanged with my (then) future wife of 36 years regarding our impressions of the Apollo 11 landing. We put them aside for our grandchildren (1 so far), who hopefully will witness both a lunar return and a mars landing.
Jerry |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3161
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 02-26-2007 07:50 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Robert:
And the winners (as of today) are:
- 2770: Philip
- 2701: Scott
- 2112: spaceuk
- 1504: Ben
- 1458: eurospace
- 1438: FFrench
Okay, that's frightening... and here I am, making it worse... |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 02-27-2007 11:07 AM
Thanks Robert for the interesting overview. However when you consider 'longest on the forum' does this mean when that person registered? Remember many of us where here before you had to register.  How did collectSPACE look again in those days?
The answer is here: http://www.archive.org/index.php |
Lunar rock nut
Member Posts: 911
From: Oklahoma city, Oklahoma U.S.A.
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 02-27-2007 11:18 AM
Hello all, At age 50 in this group. I seem to fall into the bottom of the fourth tier. As far as posts I am at rock bottom. As a new member, I want you to know I am one of the guys that has been quietly sitting at the back of the class for years unknown and in the shadows. I have visited Cs on a daily basis for a long time and have been fascinated by all the news reporting, postings and responses over the years. And Robert , Who knows me by contact off and on over several years. Here is your case in point for the question you asked in your NASA Means Business posting as far as the importance of the collecting community to NASA. Thousands of non paid free willed lobbyists, That obviously take great Pride in being Ambassadors toward the need for Space Exploration and are pleased to see where these particular tax dollars and private donations are well spent and spread this info. Like wildfire. I am honored once again to be in the presence of such insight , knowledge, wisdom and humor ! Who am I ? My bio doesn’t tell much, I took care of Shannon Lucids Parents home maintenance before their passing and her family is responsible for a large part of my memorabilia collection. I have met and spoken one on one with her on several occasions over the years. I still take care of the Late Rick Husbands Aunt and Uncles house here in Okla. City. I have met General Stafford at the business where I have my items framed about a hundred yards from my house . He has his museum items framed there also. Plus many more unsung Celeb’s in their own right. And I’ll end this with a big THANK YOU to ALL for bringing these rays of sunshine into my daily routine……….
Terry ! |
MrSpace86
Member Posts: 1618
From: Gardner, KS, USA
Registered: Feb 2003
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posted 02-27-2007 01:57 PM
Well, I'm one of the youngest clocking in at 20 yrs old. In half a century, I will take over these message boards...muahahaha! (and then I will be the oldest!).
-Rodrigo |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 02-27-2007 02:59 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
And the winners (as of today) are: - 2770: Philip
- 2701: Scott
- 2112: spaceuk
- 1504: Ben
- 1458: eurospace
- 1438: FFrench
- 1376: tegwilym
- 1344: albatron@aol.com
- 1264: Astro Bill
- 1264: nasamad
Cool, I'm #7! Hehe.Now the next question, how many of those thousands of posts have been done during working hours? Tom |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 02-27-2007 03:51 PM
None as collectSpace.com is blocked at our network ( all forums, personal storage, blogs, etc... ) are blocked! |
randy
Member Posts: 2176
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 02-27-2007 04:20 PM
51. And I hope to see at least a return to the moon in what's left of my lifetime. |
Ray Katz
Member Posts: 145
From:
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 02-27-2007 04:46 PM
I'm about to turn 50. I'm hoping to find new work to support my "habit" before the big birthday... |
Astro Bill
Member Posts: 1329
From: New York, NY
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 02-28-2007 09:18 AM
I will soon be 64 and yes, I am at work. |
BigWaveDave
Member Posts: 202
From: Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 03-03-2007 06:51 PM
If you take into consideration that I'm in the "dog" house everytime I spend any time, energy, or money on that "dog" gone space stuff" than I guess right now I'd be 364 years old...."dog" years that is.
Does that count?Aloha,
Dave |
STEVE SMITH
unregistered
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posted 04-24-2007 01:18 PM
I'll be 64 on 6/29/07. Kathy and I will probably be visiting our space friends John and Mark Farrine in New Brunwick, Canada then. Kathy and I will then spend the 4th of July week in Boston. Really loking forward to the experience.
At my age, I was a Freshman in High School when Sputnik went up, spelling big changes in my education.I will see the return to Moon (can't believe almost 35 years) and man on Mars. In fact I talked to my Granddaughter Hailey's first grade class this morning. Took many of my "Toys" with me and had a great time. They all raised their hand on "who wants to go to Mars", and I promised that at least one will. Told them its guaranteed and if they don't during there lifetime, I'll buy them all a Dr Pepper. Which led to an in depth discusion of how to drink a Dr Pepper in Space. Assured them that if mankind can go to the moon, we'll figure out how to have the essentials like Dr Pepper availabe to us in Space. Life is good!!!! |
SRB
Member Posts: 258
From:
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 04-24-2007 04:09 PM
I'm only 60 now but some day I hope to grow up to be the oldest member here. |
Joe Holloway
Member Posts: 74
From: Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Registered: Jan 2007
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posted 05-08-2007 06:35 PM
42, going on 19.Winston Churchill was buried the day after I was born. "Give us the tools...and we shall FINISH the job." |
Mike Z
Member Posts: 451
From: Ellicott City, Maryland
Registered: Dec 2005
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posted 05-08-2007 07:07 PM
This past Saturday I turned 53. I now look at every birthday as a bonus since my illness in September 2005!! Mike Z |
SpaceHillbilly
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posted 05-08-2007 08:15 PM
Old enough to remember the commotion that occurred when Sputnik was launched (we didn't talk much about those Ruskies and their successes, but you knew something big happened). Also old enough to remember standing in the backyard watching "Echo" pass over. WOW! That was amazing! A satellite!
I still watch with wonder when I see one. Of course we also followed my Dad out of the house to watch every time a plane flew over (sometimes I still do). I guess planes were like satellites to his generation. |
tncmaxq
Member Posts: 287
From: New Haven, CT USA
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 05-09-2007 01:17 PM
Interesting to compare notes with everyone here. Anyway, I am 47 and 6 months. My earliest space memories are of Gemini. I hope to make it long enough to see humans return to the Moon and go to Mars. Not to mention perhaps seeing tourists (ncluding me!) going into space for a ride.One thing that has put age into perspective for me is seeing how many people born after I was have gone into space. Leroy Chiao (born 1960) was the first, and many shuttle missions now have crew members younger than I am. Not to mention several governors, and close to a dozen US senators, are younger than I am. That makes me feel a little old. |
Gkitman
New Member Posts: 9
From: Houston, TX
Registered: May 2002
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posted 05-19-2007 04:59 AM
My first space memory, from second grade, is of the Sholastic News with Gus Grissom's picture hanging on the bulletin board in my classroom. I was so enamored with it that my teacher, Mrs. Watson gave it to me (and I still have it). She remembered me a year later when she posted John Glenn's Life Magazine cover on the bulletin board (the helmet) and gave me that one too. Mrs. Watson I’m sure passed on a long time ago and Dawes elementary was torn down a long time ago. But I saved the Scholastic News and Life. I'd actually built a model kit or two before that, including a Disney passenger rocket (Monogram) I've been collecting space (and space models) ever since. I tried to give up the models in college but it didn't stick. When I became a planetarium director in the mid-70s I started collecting again (we needed displays). Not too many space kits available by the late 70s. Pretty much everything had been discontinued. I feel really lucky having grown up in the 60s because I had a ringside seat (via TV) to the space program. It was really painful in 1964 - Mercury had finished up and Gemini seemed a long way off. But at least John Glenn and Bob McCall had an article in Boy's Life. The future was going to be great, and every Geminin launch was, except that waching those puppets during the spacewalks got a bit old especially when you couldn't buy the puppets. At least GIJoe showed up in 66-but why not a Gemini capsule ? The fire happened on my 12th birthday and was the beginning of another long period of nothing flying. I remember almost staying up all night when Apollo 8 went into lunar orbit - first time I'd ever pulled an all nighter. Jay Barbree narrated a series of NASA films, from Goddard to A7. Unfortunately most of the people who actually worked the missions never really got to enjoy them - my sister was passing through Europe and the mid-east in the summer of 69 and bought up all the newspapers she could for me. When I put these out on display for all the MSC Apollo veterans for the last big A11 anniversary, many were surprised that A11 had been big news in other parts of the world-they had no idea-they’d missed the whole story. In 1969, for Apollo 12, Captain Kangaroo had a special program on Apollo - he was the only one who gave A12 much coverage. We'd just gotten our first color TV. They were pretty pricey-I think my father paid $399. The Captain slid down the Pad 39 escape tunnel into the rubber room. I think of Captain Kangaroo every time I’m on Pad 39. I've been up and down the pad many times, but I'd love to see the rubber room. The only time I've ever seen it was on Captain Kangaroo. For A14, no one in Massachusetts or upstate New York (I grew up in Pittsfield) covered it so I had to listen to the landing on Radio Canada. They had to extend an orbit because of the solder in the abort switch and the extension pushed the landing to after sun up. The signal faded in and out a lot and by the time of the landing I could barely hear anything. For the A17 landing, it was happening in late afternoon-we did manage to convince my freshman Astronomy prof, Bill Dent, to bring in a TV - he thought that it being the last moon landing for awhile, it might be of some significance even for astronomy. I just bought my first car- a 68 VW bug - the week before Skylab 4 launched - so we figured we might drive down to see the launch - we did the 1300 miles in about 24 hours - they'd just instituted the 55 mph limits on the interstates. Got there-launch was on time and then we drove back. The childhood was about over. |
ASCAN1984
Member Posts: 1049
From: County Down, Nothern Ireland
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 05-19-2007 06:07 AM
One of the youngest members at 24 |
Harry Bennett
Member Posts: 47
From: St. Pete, FL USA
Registered: May 2007
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posted 05-19-2007 09:51 AM
I'm 28, too young to witness any of the Mercury Apollo era stuff take place. Which is a shame as it's my favorite era of Space exploration. |
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