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Topic: Places named after astronauts or spacecraft
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MCroft04
Member Posts: 1675
From: Smithfield, Me, USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 01-03-2007 07:12 PM
   
A friend of mine recently attended a geological field trip in New Mexico on porphyry (igneous intrusive rocks) copper deposits. While driving home to Tucson he passed an elementary school named Harrison A. Schmitt. Knowing a bit about space exploration he knew that Jack's middle initial is H, so when he made it home he googled and found out that H.A. is Jack's father, a prominent mining geologist who worked in the SW US and Mexico. More interesting, he then decided to read an old book on copper deposits, and one of the papers in that book was "The Porphyry Copper Deposits in Their Regional Setting" by H.A. Schmitt. At the end of the paper are several reviews, one by H.H. Schmitt who criticized H.A. for his speculations on continental drift; "The writer (Jack) has some objections to the extent of Dr. Schmitt's speculations on continental drift and its causes and some feelings". Seems that Jack expected a bit of data in support of the speculations. Unfortunately I believe that H.A. passed away before Jack walked on the moon. |
FutureAstronaut
Member Posts: 372
From:
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 01-03-2007 09:33 PM
I go to John H. Glenn High School in East Northport, New York. Whoever came up with our mascot did a very bad job. We are the Knights. Go figure! |
ColinBurgess
Member Posts: 2070
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 01-04-2007 04:39 AM
quote:
Originally posted by MCroft04:
Unfortunately I believe that H.A. passed away before Jack walked on the moon.
Jack Schmitt's father passed away in 1966 and his mother around eight years ago in 1999. |
John Charles
Member Posts: 342
From: Houston, Texas, USA
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 01-04-2007 08:21 PM
Don't forget the stretch of Farm-to-Market Road FM 518 on the south side of Clear Lake (Houston) that was renamed the Deke Slayton Parkway. And the Deke Slayton Cancer Center on Medical Center Blvd in Webster, Texas. |
spaceman1953
Member Posts: 953
From: South Bend, IN
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 01-09-2007 08:34 PM
Did we get the Frank Borman Expressway listed in here somewhere in the Gary, Indiana area? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 44940
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-01-2020 11:40 PM
Streets in the new Valley Bluff Townhomes housing development in Clinton, Iowa will bear the names of three astronauts with ties to the city. Diamond Builders, with John Carroll and Clinton officials, broke ground for Valley Bluff Townhomes on Valley West Drive in Clinton Friday afternoon (Oct. 30) and announced that streets will be named for NASA astronauts Dale Gardner, Col. David Hilmers and George Nelson.Gardner was born in 1948 in Fairmont, Minnesota, and grew up in Sherburn, Minnesota and Savanna, Illinois, but considered Clinton to be his hometown. Hilmers was born in Clinton. Nelson was born in 1950, in Charles City and considers Willmar, Minnesota, his hometown, although some of his family had lived in Clinton County. |
Ronpur
Member Posts: 1229
From: Brandon, Fl
Registered: May 2012
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posted 11-02-2020 01:45 PM
In Bithlo, Florida there is a Grissom, Carpenter, Glenn and Shepard Roads. They connect with Mercury, Atlas and Jupiter Roads. |
OV-105
Member Posts: 837
From: Ridgecrest, CA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 11-02-2020 07:39 PM
In Lancaster and Palmdale California there is Challenger Way, it was the street that was used to overland the shuttles from AF Plant 42 to Edwards AFB. There is also Columbia Way which leads from the freeway to the gate at AF Plant 42 right to Challenger Way. |
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