On July 1, astronaut Don Pettit departed the International Space Station along with his fellow Expedition 31 crewmates Oleg Kononenko and Andre Kuipers, all three of whom landed safely in Kazakhstan. Before leaving, Pettit posted this poem on his blog, entitling it “Last Day in Space”: Tomorrow we light our rocket, we burn our engines and likewise, burn a hole in [...]
Poem
For You, Shuttle Family (By Dion McInnis)
For You, Shuttle Family by Dion McInnis© IMHO (in my honest opinion) When the X-15 was developed on the QT JQ Public had no idea Of what incredible things were to be. In government time scales of eras and eons The STS concept moved PDQ From conceptualization in 1958 To the first operational flight in ’82 Our vocabulary would never [...]
