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Topic: Reflections: 2007 Autographica 10
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Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3120
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 10-20-2007 08:37 AM
  
Buzz Aldrin did a lot of smiling last weekend, but that's the biggest smile of the lot! |
Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4167
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 10-20-2007 01:25 PM
Looks like the plastic surgery is paying off already.............There is life in the old dog yet. WOOF WOOF!Regards, Rick |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 10-20-2007 04:35 PM
Kim - Any chance you can get these ladies to help Buzz at the next Spacefest? Buzz seems to like them and, well, they look better than Gerry (sorry Mint!).  |
machbusterman
Member Posts: 1778
From: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Registered: May 2004
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posted 10-21-2007 03:53 AM
Great idea Mark... Imagine a show in Vegas with plenty of "eye-candy" as well as the astros... would make for a very interesting time in the bar methinks. |
BA002
Member Posts: 175
From: Utrecht,NL
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 10-21-2007 10:51 AM
I suppose anyone's appreciation of an event like this is shaped by their expectations and past experiences. My experience is rather limited, but it does include this year's UACC at the Kennedy Space Center in June, so that would be hard to top and to be honest made it difficult for me to decide whether or not to attend the Autographica show as well. Looking back, I am very glad I did!That doesn't mean to say there weren't any disappointments. It was a pity that Edgar Mitchell couldn't attend and I was very sorry that Buzz Aldrin's lectures were both cancelled. I have to admit I am more interested in meeting the astronauts than in getting ever more signatures, and to me these lectures are a wonderful way of hearing their stories straight from the horses mouth and I don't mind hearing the same guys twice or more either. I got the impression that Buzz Aldrin was perhaps in a slightly lesser mood than on the previous occasions I met him, in Delft earlier this year and at the UACC, where I found him fascinating, approachable and quite witty. However, that was all more than made up for by a number of wonderful moments over the weekend. I did get the poster that hung on my bedroom wall for years when I was a kid signed by Buzz Aldrin, and obviously as a kid I never dreamt I would ever meet one, let alone a few, of those demi-gods a.k.a. astronauts!   One of those spontaneous moments, already refered to by someone else, occured when Alan Bean and Gene Cernan where discussing two beautiful pictures, one the famous Apollo 17 full earth and one of a crescent earth as seen from lunar orbit. At moments like that it really sinks in, that these are two of the only guys who ever actually went there and how fascinating it must have been.  And isn't it simply fun to go and have breakfast and before your first sip of coffee you have already seen Al Worden walk by, Alan Bean in his jogging outfit talking to Gene Cernan and Buzz Aldrin sitting over in a corner? I thoroughly enjoyed the lectures by Al Worden and Scott Carpenter, as well as Mike Bannister's, Concorde's chief pilot. OK, so it wasn't a rocket, but on the one Concorde flight I ever made, from JFK to LHR, at 58,700 feet it came as close to space as I likely ever will :-) To me the high point of the weekend was Gene Cernan's lecture. Unexpected, and I got the impression to make up for Buzz Aldrin's second cancellation, it was a wonderful surprise to hear his story in which he tried to answer the dreaded question "what was it like..." in a manner that had me spellbound for the hour it lasted. All in all, I wouldn't have missed it and despite the lack of a Shuttle launch :-) I thought it was great. Well done and thanks to all who made it happen! Leo Bakker
Utrecht, HOLLAND   |
gliderpilotuk
Member Posts: 3398
From: London, UK
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 10-22-2007 08:44 AM
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Originally posted by pdpel3:
Your getting cheeky Brammers you know that we offer the best postal service in the world, for the price and we are the only service that delivers six days a week and to the door direct.
I know there's a lot of good people in the Royal Mail but when you have a poorly-paid MONOPOLY led by two millionaires whose only focus is profits and their bonuses, service is bound to be less than average.In the last 2 months I have had one Code 3 model stolen in the mail; a set of NASA glossies ruined by some moron folding them through the letterbox; and 2 other parcels posted 1st class 10 days ago have still not arrived... will they ever? Jerome (ApolloMissionPhotos) has a ton of stuff "missing" in transit. I've opened an account at Fedex because I can't trust deliveries.  Paul |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1751
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 10-22-2007 11:59 AM
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Originally posted by Rick Mulheirn:
Looks like the plastic surgery is paying off already...
Whose?? His or theirs?! |
machbusterman
Member Posts: 1778
From: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Registered: May 2004
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posted 10-22-2007 01:52 PM
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Originally posted by ejectr:
Whose?? His or theirs?!
Yeravinalaffain'tcha? Those girl's haven't gone under the knife! Unlike Dr. Aldrin who underwent a procedure at the behest of his wife. |
machbusterman
Member Posts: 1778
From: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Registered: May 2004
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posted 10-22-2007 01:58 PM
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Originally posted by gliderpilotuk:
I know there's a lot of good people in the Royal Mail but when you have a poorly-paid MONOPOLY led by two millionaires whose only focus is profits and their bonuses, service is bound to be less than average.
I've had similar problems with those in the Royal Mail too. I've had litho prints delivered in a poster-tube. I was out so rather than take back to the depot the postie removed the end-caps and stood on the tube to flatten it, post it and the end caps through my letterbox. Also had packages stolen/damaged and most recently my package from the ASF hasn't arrived... the first time in 3 years this has happened. I actually think you're average postie can't read as the amount of mail I get for others is incredible and of course, they pay NO ATTENTION to the "Do Not Bend" markings on packages.You can try and claim from them but they make it SO difficult that its a waste of time... and the compensation is a joke too. - Derek |
geoffpollard
Member Posts: 27
From: Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted 11-02-2007 10:51 AM
Really enjoyed the Saturday, unfortunately only had the morning so was specific in my collecting. Great to get Gene Cernan on one piece and Buzz Aldrin. Would have liked to get him on two other pieces but ran out of cash. I am ever hopeful that Buzz will return again, so that I can get him on those other two. Does anyone know if Autographica will be on in March and likely attendees.
geoff |
carl walker
Member Posts: 360
From: Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 11-05-2007 10:01 AM
Hi, what a fantastic event. Nice to meet new faces and catch up with the older ones! Apologies for the seemingly slow response compared to the rest of you guys, but i forgot I was a member on CollectSpace... duh.Hey Kev, Im starting to worry about that pic with Jenny Agutter... are you there?? Cheers
Carl |
robsouth
Member Posts: 769
From: West Midlands, UK
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 11-05-2007 11:33 PM
I'm gutted that I missed this show, Cernan is near the top of my 'to meet' list.That photo Of Aldrin with the two laydeez is a classic, just look at his smile haha! And yes it would have been great to hear those two Apollo guys chatting about the Earthrise photo. |
Kev
Member Posts: 32
From: Ireland
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 11-06-2007 03:17 PM
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Originally posted by carl walker:
Hey Kev, Im starting to worry about that pic with Jenny Agutter... are you there??
I sent them the following week but have now also sent them to your wanadoo address. Let me know when you get them.Kev |
gliderpilotuk
Member Posts: 3398
From: London, UK
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 11-07-2007 03:35 AM
Does anyone have contact details for the "official" photographer? I still don't have my photo with Cernan back...though he has my money! (yes I have also asked Dave for his details).Paul |
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