A guide on how to become a kid, once again.

[ComatoseJedi]

Here's a simple guide on how to relive your childhood and become a kid, once again

1. As a child, dream of going into space.
2. Wait 30+ years and grow up still dreaming of space.
3. Go to Kennedy Space Center for the very first time in your life when your dreams of going to space are manifested into reality.
4. Profit!

This is where I went for my birthday last Sunday. I looked around like a child looking at the things I dreamed of seeing in real life for the very first time. After all the reading about it, looking at pictures, remembering the names of astronauts who did the impossible and there you are, right in the middle of it. The roaming masses around me, weren't as amazed and totally enthralled as I was walking around that place. If you had fancied space flight and everything to do with space your entire life, you find a beauty in everything you see at that place. All of that was amazing technological art to me. And, a lot of people saw a grown man cry at these things and don't understand why. And I'm glad they don't understand. 

 

 

[cubinator]

It's really spectacular seeing these things for real. I remember when I saw the Saturn V for the first time, and marveled at the size of the F1 engines and the great length of the room in which it was kept. It was spectacular; this was a machine that could take men to the Moon, the machine I had read about in books, watched in documentaries, and dreamt of flying in, and it was here, right in front of my eyes, in all its immensity and shiny metal splendor. I just wish I could have stayed to see Discovery make its last roaring flight, it launched about a week after I went home. One day I'll watch a rocket launch, though, and one day I'll be in the rocket and I'll leave the "watching" to others because I'll have to be doing the "doing".

There is nothing I want more than to watch a sunset on Mars, then see the miniscule Earth in the night sky. I am working towards that goal now, and I will keep working towards it until I have done it. My generation will travel farther than ever before, regardless of NASA's underfunding. Politics can slow, but cannot ultimately suppress humankind's desire to become one with the stars. Science and engineering will push on through each new frontier, making our world a better place for us and letting us travel to countless new worlds to make them our homes as well. Before the end of the century, spacecraft will launch from today's airports carrying passengers from one side of Earth to the other in less than an hour. The Future has started, and it is about to get awesome.

P.S. Did you eat lunch at the restaurant by the Saturn V? (Is that restaurant still there?)

P.P.S. Does anyone else think the new SLS booster paint job makes it look like a giant Atari logo?

[PB666]

Ironically, yesterday i was at JSC (NASA rd 1) and i was looking for parts for my launch, but not for a rocket. You guys can go into space till your hearts desire, me i sit back and watch everything from the water. Not a martain, not an asteroid either, and pretty much sure im not a bird cause I cant stand flying. I leave that up to the youngsters with all the energy and dreams of folly. 

[insert_name]

I remember seeing the Saturn 5, the ullage motors were bigger than me, that thing is huge.

[razark]

On 6/25/2016 at 10:09 PM, PB666 said:

NASA rd 1

Thank you!

They can change the signs all they want, it'll never be NASA Parkway.