posted 03-30-2011 06:44 PM            

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Originally posted by JasonB:
Maybe he prefers the present tense they used in the movie to the incorrect past tense he actually used, or maybe he doesn't care one way or the other. Its not all that different really so it doesn't bother me either way but it is better known as "we have" instead of the way he actually said it due to the movie.

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Call me a stickler for detail, but the past tense was NOT incorrect at the time, since a problem had obviously occurred (past tense). It soon became apparent that the consequences of that "problem" were continuing, but that doesn't alter the fact that he said "We've had a problem." I suspect Jim Lovell has got tired of people complaining to him that they paid good money for his quotation and he 'didn't write it as it appeared in the film.'

Another good Hollywood quotation: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."

posted 03-31-2011 11:25 AM               

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Originally posted by Blackarrow:
I suspect Jim Lovell has got tired of people complaining to him that they paid good money for his quotation and he 'didn't write it as it appeared in the film.'

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posted 04-05-2011 10:28 PM               

The cutoff for anyone sending Paypal payments will be May 29th...no exceptions!

If you send payment on the 29th and I dont get your item until the 1st, that is fine. Sending US cash is your other alternative.

posted 04-06-2011 09:29 AM               

Lithos from the following Missions:

• Gemini IV (1)- crew
  
• Gemini XI (2)- crew and earth sky views
  
• Apollo 8 (1)- crew pose
  
• Apollo 9 (1)- crew pose
  
• Apollo 10 (1)- crew pose
  
• Apollo 11 (1)- crew pose
  
• Apollo 12 (1)- crew pose
  
• Apollo 13 (1)- mission highlights
  
• Apollo 14 (2)- LM on the moon, crew pose
  
• Apollo 17 (1)- night launch
  
• ASTP (8)Floating heads, crew, launch, docking
  
• Skylab (3) in orbit

• Dave Scott (3)- Business Suit litho, Scott at Rover (B & W)

• McDivitt Business Suit RNG with purple wording on the back (Dec. 1971)

• Gene Cernan (12) (professionally reproduced photos on kodak paper)- John Wayne, Salute, Earth in background

• Dick Gordon- WSS
  
• Apollo 12- crew pose
  
• Apollo 14- crew pose

posted 04-07-2011 01:02 PM               

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Originally posted by Hart Sastrowardoyo:
Well, there's a simple solution: Hold the reception at Spacefest...

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posted 05-14-2011 04:57 PM               

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Originally posted by BMacKinnon:
Great News - Lew Nelson will be coming to Spacefest after all! The first person to fly the T-38! What an honor to meet an aviation legend! Thanks Uncle Al!

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Thanks for the kind words Bri - but this is a collective effort - so thanks to all!

By the way not only did he fly the first flight of the YT-38, but also the N-156F (that became the F-5) and the A-9 that was competition for the A-10 (the A-10 won). Lew is in his 90's as is Gen. Cardenas, so I wouldn't wait on these guys.

I am trying to put together some covers of the first flights of the N-156F and YT-38 for sale at the show. If I can get them done in time I will bring some dual cancelled anniversary ones of Lew's N-156F first flight and also cancelled on the flight of the first USAF flight anniversary. Already signed by Bud Evans, the USAF chief test pilot.

RARELY do you see items from first flights signed by both the company chief test pilot and military first flight pilot.

These will be in extremely limited quantity.

posted 05-14-2011 10:34 PM               

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Originally posted by albatron:
Thanks for the kind words Bri...

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posted 05-21-2011 09:01 PM               

Here are a couple of examples from the preliminary schedule posted on-line:

At 10:30 a.m. on Friday there is a choice between 1) astronomer David Levy, co-founder of the comet that hit Jupiter in 1994 and noted lecturer; 2) Dan Durda, planetary scientist, future sub-orbital astronaut and outstanding speaker; and 3) authors and editors Francis French and Colin Burgess, who know as much about space as anyone and who know how to communicate their knowlege.

Each of these gentlemen are keynote speakers themselves-- what to do?

Another example is at 4:30 p.m. on Friday.There is a choice between 1) Rick Searfoss, former NASA astronaut and XCOR test pilot; 2) Mark Sykes, director of the Planetary Institute and co-investigator of the DAWN spacecraft to Vesta and Ceres; and 3) Robert Pearlman, the guru of space collecting and a very talented speaker.