Somewhere there is a Polaroid my father took of our TV in New Milford Connecticut. It shows Apollo 11 landing on the moon in 1969. You can say I’ve been a space fan since then.
In the last few years I have tried to step up my game a bit and I think I am doing OK. I thought it might be nice to track a few of my space fandom milestones.
Visits to “Space Centers”
– Kennedy Space Center – December 2019
– Space Center Houston – February 2020
– Space & Rocket Center Huntsville – August 2014
– Kansas Cosmosphere – Circa 2000
Moon Rocks Touched
– Kennedy Space Center – December 2019
– Space Center Houston – February 2020
– Smithsonian – To Be Accomplished
Space Shuttles Visited
– Discovery, June 2015, Udvar-Hazy Center, Fairfax, VA. (OV-103)
– Enterprise, June 2019, Intrepid Air and Space Museum NYC (OV-101)
– Atlantis, December 2019, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. (OV-104)
– Endeavour, To Be Accomplished, California Science Center (OV-105)
– Replicas: Kansas Cosmosphere, Johnson Space Center (Independence), Space and Rocket Center (Pathfinder)
– Special Mention: NASA 747 Shuttle Ferry Plane – N905NA
Apollo Command Modules Visited
– Apollo 11 – Kennedy Space Center
– Apollo 17 – Space Center Houston
More to come.