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Robert Pearlman
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posted 04-28-2022 04:33 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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NASA dedicates new benches of honor to veterans of Mission Control

A trio of new monuments at NASA's home for human spaceflight pays tribute to the flight control teams of the past by inviting visitors to sit down and reflect on what was made possible from inside the Mission Control Center in Houston.

...NASA officials and members of the Manned Spaceflight Operations Association (MSOA) on Thursday (April 28) dedicated three black granite benches — one for each for the teams behind the Gemini and Apollo programs; the Skylab flights and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project; and the space shuttle missions. The MSOA privately funded the benches with donations from 98 of the non-profit organization's members.

Gordon Eliot Reade
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posted 05-01-2022 01:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Gordon Eliot Reade   Click Here to Email Gordon Eliot Reade     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
On a tour of the Johnson Space Center just a few weeks ago I saw those benches and they immediately caught my eye. There are very handsome so much so that I didn’t want to put my butt on them. It just didn’t seem right.

SkyMan1958
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posted 05-01-2022 03:52 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SkyMan1958   Click Here to Email SkyMan1958     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Last I checked, Houston is a hot and predominantly sunny spot. Putting one's fanny on black granite during the summer months seems like an unpleasant experience to me. In my opinion, the should have used some lighter colored stone, there is after all white granite too.

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