Były astronauta wspomina m. in. relacje między dwoma agencjami !Legacy Panel hosts retired pioneers of Manned Spaceflight Engineer programPublished Jan. 3, 2017 By James Spellman, Jr. Space and Missile Systems Center
(...) In 1979, the first 13 Manned Spaceflight Engineers were selected. Two additional groups of another 14 MSEs in 1982 and five more MSEs in 1985 were eventually added. Unfortunately, NASA was initially reluctant to assign the military MSEs to shuttle flights because of their lack of NASA training and NASA’s desire to preserve the limited flight crew assignments for NASA payload specialists.
“Between these two agencies, it really was a shotgun marriage,” said Payton, who served as Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force for Space Programs until his retirement in July, 2010. “NASA thought of us as a bunch of snotty-nosed kids, outsiders, almost guests … nothing more than engineers or scientists who tended one particular satellite or experiment, and typically flew just once. We, on the other hand, thought our job was to help bridge the gulf between the military and civilian space agencies.” (...)
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Local astronaut with a top-secret mission, a massive fire and a ghost among museum findsJai Agnish, Staff Writer, @JaiAgnish | NorthJersey
Small museums and historic sites are easy to overlook, but there are plenty of surprising treasures to be discovered locally.
Did you know Kinnelon produced an astronaut who went on a secret mission in space? Or that an abandoned iron mine sits, long forgotten, beneath a reservoir?
In Butler, a massive industrial fire broke out at a rubber plant in 1957. Inventor Thomas Edison stayed at a borough hotel in 1894 and signed the hotel register book, now on display at the Butler Museum.
There is even a ghost story. The museum in Pequannock is an old train station haunted by an apparition from a horrifying railroad crossing accident in 1876 that killed humans and horses.
You can check out related artifacts and learn more during the annual Pathways of History tour Sept. 22 and 23. Admission to the the 17 participating historic sites and museums in Morris County is free. Visit pathwaysofhistorynj.net to find out more and map out your adventure.
Kinnelon's space hero
Kinnelon's own Air Force Lt. Col. William Pailes flew a top-secret, five-day military space mission aboard the shuttle Atlantis in 1985. Pailes was born in Hackensack and lived in Wayne until age 6, and considers Kinnelon his hometown, according to his NASA biography.
Pailes, a 1970 graduate of Kinnelon High School, returned less than two weeks after the space flight and received a tumultuous welcome in the high school gym. Kids stood and roared for him and his wife, Brenda, and the band blared the theme from "2001: A Space Odyssey."
He now lives in California, where he is a former deacon and treasurer of his church.
Pailes had taken a Kinnelon High School banner into space with him. During the festivities at the school, he presented it to the principal, Robert Schott.
Pailes also donated a patch from his uniform to the Kinnelon Museum, which is on display along with autographed photos of him and the Atlantis space shuttle. (...)https://eu.northjersey.com/story/news/morris/2018/09/17/museums-nj-morris-county-history-secret-space-mission-rubber-factory-fire-ghost/936528002/
Wątek: WA "Bill" Pailes - 26.06.1952 (Przeczytany 275 razy)