kinetic
24-07-2011, 06:52 PM
Hi all,
Well, I can't quite bring myself to throw out my Astro-Scrapbook that has been a part of my life for over 30 years or more.
It is a beaten up old foolscap folder, spine long gone, and held together with duct tape.
It has some of my earliest ramblings and drawings about space, rockets,
the first space shuttle flights, hand drawn charts of the sky where Halley's Comet
drifted through the months of 86/87 etc.
It has some of my earliest forays into astro-photography, printed in my own b/w darkroom I set up as an early teenager. I lived and breathed space as a kid.
What is there to inspire young kids now, with the lapse of such a huge manned space program such as the Shuttle, possibly drifting into a wilderness, maybe years or decades long?
As a side thought, just on the shuttle program, it has been 30 years
long. That is a long time for a craft to be flying.
I know the airframes of these 5 shuttles are far from original but even in
space terms it would be like Saturn Vs still flying in the late 90's :)
My dad was roughly my age when the first Shuttle flew in 81.
Now I'm the age he was, 30 years on and my son is roughly the age
that I was when I was so inspired by space.
I thought I would share maybe a glimpse of how passionate I was
as a kid, collecting everything I could about space. Here are some
clippings of just the first 3 Shuttle flights (STS-1,2,3) and the maiden flight of Challenger (STS-6).
What do you guys have in your scrapbook? Feel free to add.....:)
ps apologies for the poor scan quality of some
Steve
Well, I can't quite bring myself to throw out my Astro-Scrapbook that has been a part of my life for over 30 years or more.
It is a beaten up old foolscap folder, spine long gone, and held together with duct tape.
It has some of my earliest ramblings and drawings about space, rockets,
the first space shuttle flights, hand drawn charts of the sky where Halley's Comet
drifted through the months of 86/87 etc.
It has some of my earliest forays into astro-photography, printed in my own b/w darkroom I set up as an early teenager. I lived and breathed space as a kid.
What is there to inspire young kids now, with the lapse of such a huge manned space program such as the Shuttle, possibly drifting into a wilderness, maybe years or decades long?
As a side thought, just on the shuttle program, it has been 30 years
long. That is a long time for a craft to be flying.
I know the airframes of these 5 shuttles are far from original but even in
space terms it would be like Saturn Vs still flying in the late 90's :)
My dad was roughly my age when the first Shuttle flew in 81.
Now I'm the age he was, 30 years on and my son is roughly the age
that I was when I was so inspired by space.
I thought I would share maybe a glimpse of how passionate I was
as a kid, collecting everything I could about space. Here are some
clippings of just the first 3 Shuttle flights (STS-1,2,3) and the maiden flight of Challenger (STS-6).
What do you guys have in your scrapbook? Feel free to add.....:)
ps apologies for the poor scan quality of some
Steve