Saturday, February 2, 2019

Kennedy Space Center day 2

The tour we took today was focused on our early space program. We left the KSC and drove into Cape Canaveral. All of the historic launch pads that were used by our first astronauts are on The Cape. The first group of astronauts we had were called "The Mercury Seven". If you are from a certain generation you will surely recognize their names. Glenn, Shepard, Grissom, Cooper, Schirra, Carpenter, and Slayton. On the shoulders of giants. That little rocket Jenny is standing by
is the rocket Alan Shepherd rode into space to become our first astronaut. It was a toy. The computing power used in the early launches was less that the computing power in my watch. We feel like we have seen enough of the space coast. We move tomorrow.

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