Dream Chaser to breathe new life into Michoud | NASASpaceFlight.com

Dream Chaser to breathe new life into Michoud | NASASpaceFlight.com

What wonderful news.  Michoud has a history going over 200 years.

My new book is "Mischief at Michoud" which should be published in the next month.

Aurora, dancing with the stars. Astronauts in the audience.

Aurora, dancing with the stars. Astronauts in the audience.: Aurora, dancing with the stars. Astronauts in the audience.
Wow! Very beautiful and our protection from the sun.

HIGH FLIGHT

                        

                                          HIGH FLIGHT

                                                                   

                                           Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of                 Earth

                                           And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

                                          Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth

                                          Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things

                                          You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung

                                           High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,

                                           I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung

                                           My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

                                           Up, up the long, delirious burning blue

                                           I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace

                                           Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —

                                           And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod

                                           The high untrespassed sanctity of space,

                                           Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.



                                            — John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

This picture was taken in May, 1961 at Barksdale AFB in Bossier City, La.
Dr. Wernher von Braun is on the left, I am in the middle and my friend, A.W. is on the right.
A. W. and I were in High School R.O.T.C. at Byrd H.S. in Shreveport, La.

He was an inspiration to all of us and one of the reasons that after college, I came to work on the Apollo Program.