posted 07-20-2009 03:26 AM               

Congratulations Robert - here's to another 10

posted 07-20-2009 04:31 AM               

Originally my plan was to have a surprise in store today to celebrate our tenth anniversary (and in a way, I still did), but with Apollo 11's 40th taking on a much larger impact this year than I think anyone really anticipated (in light of LRO's landing site pictures, NASA's newly restored film and Walter Cronkite's passing), I chose to extend our own celebration to the first week of November, which will mark 10 years since our first member joined [and will nicely coincide with the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation's Astronaut Autograph & Memorabilia Show].

posted 07-20-2009 08:53 AM               

Terry

posted 07-20-2009 12:43 PM               

I can only describe my trips here as pure addiction. When one feels compelled to to visit, not only daily, but several times a day, how else can it be described?!

Robert, thank you so much for all you do for us. Sometimes I wonder if you ever sleep when you often respond instantly to postings made during daylight hours from the eastern side of the Pond (and nightime equivalent on your side.)

Here's to many anniversaries to be celebrated in the future.

posted 07-20-2009 03:23 PM               

Most of my friends have little to no interest in space so it's brilliant to have somewhere to hear about other peoples insights and opinions into this great hobby.

posted 07-20-2009 03:55 PM               

I wonder what I'd have done instead on the days when I met Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin in Reno; or Jack Schmitt in Delft; or Dave Scott in London.

What would I put in my spare room instead of spacesuits?

What would my wife have spent all the money on?

Thanks Robert, it's a life changing site

posted 07-20-2009 04:10 PM               

I have only been a member of this site for a few months, and yet already it has greatly improved my collection and more importantly, my interest in all things space.

Thanks to this site, I became aware of Autographica this September and so thank you Robert for giving me the chance to meet some of my heroes!

I hope to be a member of this wonderful site for many more years to come!

posted 07-21-2009 02:52 PM               

Per the previous post I ask people in line at book signings etc too and I am surprised at how many don't know about collectSPACE. Though some are lurkers and one fellow in Palm Springs years ago noted he only looked at it for the sightings section.

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Kind Regards

Douglas Henry

posted 07-21-2009 03:43 PM               

I am a latecomer to the site, but was in the right place at the right time, I'm employment, to have a computer tech support job when the Internet was still mostly text and the WWW was just getting going... I always thought, sheesh, with all this text, I don't need all that color and all those pictures!

But you have provided us with an absolutely incredible resource, and usually only check in once a day, but stay several, many minutes catching up.

Thank you for all you do for us.

posted 07-22-2009 05:07 PM               

This is an excelent site not just for the quality of its content and administration, but for its technical functionality as a web site. (It works so perfectly.)

As a new member who joined originally to try to find a buyer for my space junk, I have been drawn into the sphere of space hardware and have spent many hours on this site.

posted 07-22-2009 05:11 PM               

It was great to finally meet you in person at the Autograph show at KSC a couple years ago and hope to meet you again maybe at the next one in November. I hope NASA will skew some shuttle schedules so it will line up with a launch like the STS-117 that we saw. Wow... that was the FINEST weekend I ever had!

posted 07-22-2009 05:59 PM               

But collectSPACE has meant much more to me than just a cozy place to pick up and impart information and stories; the Outward Odyssey series might never have come to fruition without the assistance it gave me in finding mostly first-time authors with the necessary background and experience in writing, combined with a passion for spaceflight history. It is my sincere hope that all of these writers will seize this advantage and go on to write books of their own. So I believe that collectSPACE has potentially become the breeding ground for the next generation of spaceflight writers.

For that, and for the other thousand and one things, thank you, Robert.

posted 07-22-2009 06:26 PM               

I don't know how Robert finds the time to administer this site while jetting all over the country for his "real" job. (How many of us wish we had HIS job????) He runs the forum with a light touch rather than a heavy hand, which I really appreciate.

Robert, I'm very happy that I got to meet you at Spacefest this year and it was a joy to see you again at the NASM this week. Congratulations!!

Jonathan

posted 07-23-2009 02:00 PM               

Per your above July 20 post I am very much looking forward to the next ASF show at KSC in November. "The cS 10th Anniversary Splash Down" has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?!

Wishing you many more decades of cS! Thank you!

posted 07-23-2009 02:17 PM               

Good to meet you at NASM. And a blast to see everyone else there also.

Steve thanks again for the ticket.

posted 07-24-2009 02:41 PM               

I have learnt such a lot since joining collectSPACE.

posted 07-24-2009 02:50 PM               

The past ten years have been tremendously rewarding, especially for the friendships I have been able to develop with many of you! I've met no finer group of individuals that cS'ers (a term I didn't even coin!) and I'm honored to have each of you as part of this community.