Last night I was rereading one of my latest Downsizer Sandy blog posts. This post concerned the death of a cousin astronaut Don Peterson in El Lago Texas. Don Peterson had spacewalked with another crew member while up in space April 4 1983. National Geographic Mag Sept 83 shows them up there. They were testing the new air lock and space suits. He was on the STS6 launch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rls6WnVOsbM
they are .in Huntsville Alabama talking about one of their latest hauls for reselling on Ebay at the same time I was reviewing my blog post.. Dusty's estate haul was from boxes of papers of this person who had worked on the rocket motor that had been unopened for MANY years. Dusty was talking about Challenger,... STS8 in August 1983. This was the same time in life... Huntsville meets Houston meets Canav ral...in 1983.!!!
It struck me how even though the time and place and people were different … their lives were so connected by their thoughts, activities and success were so dependent on each other. yet unknown to each other.
I like watching Dusty enjoy his finds on his YouTube! I am approaching my 80th Bday in Sept and still get the same joy and happy buzz when I find things like he and Tristan do! Right up there with my joy of teaching 30 years!
YES.... THE INTERNET IS EXPANDING ALL THE TIME...but it is also shrinking our world...that we find connections between connected people, places and events that weren't even known when they occurred....
One of my old neighbors in Florida called these PARALLEL LIFE PATHS THAT DIDNT MEET TIL LATER.
YEP GIANT STEPS FORWARD ALL THE TIME AND SO MUCH FUN ON EBAY and YOUTUBE!....:)
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