...I'm a rocket man.....

A blip of my new display in my lab.

I've been waiting over 8 months for a new display board in my lab. Today I finally lost patience. I had printed off all the Apollo mission patches plus some Shuttle, Gemini, Skylab and Mercury patches. I'd also printed some headlines from the Apollo 11 and 13 missions. I had a photograph of a group of pupils and myself and Chris O meeting a couple of US astronauts and hebs had recently given me one of her marvellous timelapse star photographs..... so I went for it.

I hauled myself up onto the lab bench, opened the display bord , took out my sky map and "Amazing Space facts" and put up hebs photo, the astronaut photo and as many mission patches and headlines as I could. Took a few shots, closed the diplay board and jumped back to Earth.

I can't help it, I'm a space nerd...I know the names of all 12 moonwalkers and the command pilots that went with them, the first man in space, the first woman in space, the first space walker, the first US space walker, the first untethered space walker, the first British astronaut.....the list goes on.

I remember being woken up as an 11 year old to watch Armstrong's first step on the moon, I watched the entire Apollo 13 mission in total trepidation, I watched the first Shuttle launch and the two shuttle disasters. I can quote verbatim the first message from the moon, I remember Dave Scott on Apollo 15 testing Galileo Galilei's gravity theory by dropping a hammer and a feather on the moon. I remember the moon buggy on Apollo 15,16 and 17. I've seen the International Space station going across the sky just a few days ago, I watched the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project when the last ever Apollo mission linked to the Russian Soyuz. I saw sky lab cross the heavens. I even remeber Alan Shepard hitting a golf ball on the moon!

I got home tonight, the Boss and I ordered in a Chinese and we settled down and watched.......Armageddon! I show that film in chunks when we do "Space" as a topic in school....never fails to make a class of 16 year old girls cry when Bruce Willis stays behind to destroy the asteroid!

I'va also been known to show Apollo 13 in chunks over the course of a term, just because it's such a good film, and part of my youth!

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