posted 08-01-2015 07:27 PM               

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Originally posted by Chuckster01:
Ken, you should write a book.

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posted 08-03-2015 05:30 AM               

But I did witness all the manned Apollo launches, all Skylabs, Apollo-Soyuz, and 134 of the 135 shuttle liftoffs up-close "live" from the space center.

Missed was STS-129 in Nov. 2009, but in addition, I have covered another 350 or so unmanned missile, rocket, satellite, and space probe shots here on the Cape itself.

For my buddies Chuck and Joel; Appreciate the kind remarks about putting together a book of some kind after nearly a lifetime of an unusual "space career" of sorts, however, I never did record or write down any of my prior coverage observations, encounters, experiences, interesting stories, nor organize any of the many photographs taken during all of those decades.

Both of you are very kind to suggest such a possibility, but in the long run, I wouldn't think such a book topic would merit hardly any interest, yet alone have someone actually "pay" for something like this from a space buff.

And finally for Ronpur of Brandon, FL, I hope your visit to the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville was an enjoyable one.

Yes, indeed, Mary Bubb's shuttle hat is on display at the facility. I had donated it to the museum foundation along with some of her news media badges and a couple of Mary's used reporting notebooks from the early days of the Space Age.

In addition, at the request of the AHOF, about 300 different pieces of my own Apollo 11 memorabilia collection of man's first lunar landing were donated to the museum and first displayed there in Oct. 1997. It was on the same day as the induction of the Apollo, Skylab and ASTP astronaut space fliers took place.

While there are some autographs displayed from my collection there, it's only those related to the epic Apollo 11 lunar voyage.