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Quotes
The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth. Mae Jemison
Is manned space exploration important? Yes - not least because it simply works much better than sending robots. Henry Spencer
Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation. Randy Forbes
Tech working on rocket engine
Wings Over the Rockies
Lowry, a retired Air Force training base, now a residential neighborhood, retained a huge hanger and converted it into a museum for WWII airplanes and newer models. The museum is a great place to see the aircraft of the past. Wings Over the Rockies, a Colorado nonprofit, saw a need to expand to a facility that will focus on the present and future of aviation and aerospace exploration.
In addition to the Lowry location, the Exploration of Flight campus will be located at Centennial Airport near the suburb of Centennial, Colorado. Visitors will see educational exhibits, try their hand with a flight simulator, and observe take offs and landings at Centennial Airport. A partner sharing the facility will be the Boeing Blue Sky Aviation Gallery. The Blue Sky Gallery will feature possible advances in the future of space exploration.
John Barry, CEO said, "Our Air & Space Museum in Lowry and Exploration of Flight, one organization, two locations." The Centennial site is scheduled for completion this summer.
Black History Month
It is estimated that one third of the cowboys in the West were black, while the West was being settled,
Quotes
The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth. Mae Jemison
Is manned space exploration important? Yes - not least because it simply works much better than sending robots. Henry Spencer
Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation. Randy Forbes
Tech working on rocket engine
Wings Over the Rockies
Lowry, a retired Air Force training base, now a residential neighborhood, retained a huge hanger and converted it into a museum for WWII airplanes and newer models. The museum is a great place to see the aircraft of the past. Wings Over the Rockies, a Colorado nonprofit, saw a need to expand to a facility that will focus on the present and future of aviation and aerospace exploration.
In addition to the Lowry location, the Exploration of Flight campus will be located at Centennial Airport near the suburb of Centennial, Colorado. Visitors will see educational exhibits, try their hand with a flight simulator, and observe take offs and landings at Centennial Airport. A partner sharing the facility will be the Boeing Blue Sky Aviation Gallery. The Blue Sky Gallery will feature possible advances in the future of space exploration.
John Barry, CEO said, "Our Air & Space Museum in Lowry and Exploration of Flight, one organization, two locations." The Centennial site is scheduled for completion this summer.
Black History Month
It is estimated that one third of the cowboys in the West were black, while the West was being settled,
0ne of the most famous cowboys was Nat Love (pronounced Nate) because he wrote an autobiography. Being something of a braggart, some of his claims are questioned, but his book paints a good picture of what life on the range was like in those days.
Love was born a slave on the plantation of Robert Love in Davidson County, Tennessee around 1854. Despite slavery-era laws that outlawed black literacy, Nat learned to read and write as a child. When slavery ended, Nat took a second job working on a local farm to help make ends meet. At about this time, he was noted as having a gift for breaking horses. After some time of working in the area, he won a horse in a raffle, which he then sold back to the owner for $50. He used the money to leave town and, at the age of 16, headed West.
After driving a herd of cattle to the rail head in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, he entered a rodeo on the 4th of July in 1876, enticed by the $200 prize money. He won the rope, throw, tie, bridle, saddle, and bronco riding contests. It was at this rodeo that he claims friends and fans gave him the nickname "Deadwood Dick," a reference to a character created by a "dime novel" author of the day. Love claimed the money was soon spent, but the moniker stayed with him throughout his life.
At the advent of the railroads the cattle drives were no longer needed. He married his wife Alice in 1889 and settled down, initially in Denver, taking a job in 1890 as a Pullman porter overseeing sleeping cars of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.
In his 1907 autobiography, The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, cowboy Nat Love recounts stories from his life on the frontier. He moved massive herds of cattle from one grazing area to another, drank with Billy the Kid and participated in shootouts with Native peoples defending their land on the trails. And when not, as he put it, “engaged in fighting Indians,” he amused himself with activities like “dare-devil riding, shooting, roping and such sports.”
Nat Love, "Deadwood Dick"
Cowboy Humor
A young cowboy walks into the saloon. He walks up to the bar and notices an old cowboy with his arms folded, staring blankly at a full bowl of chowder.
After he finishes his beer he notices the other cowboy standing there staring at the chowder, The young cowboy bravely asked the old cowboy, "If you ain't gonna eat that, mind if I do?"
Much to the young cowboy's surprise the older cowboy slowly turns his head toward the young wrangler and in his best cowboy manner says, "Nah, go ahead."
Eagerly, the young cowboy reaches over and slides the bowl over to his place and starts spooning in it with delight. He gets nearly down to the bottom and notices a dead mouse. The sight was shocking and he immediately barfs up the chowder back into the bowl.
The old cowboy quietly says, "Yep, that's as far as I got, too."
Cowboy Humor
A young cowboy walks into the saloon. He walks up to the bar and notices an old cowboy with his arms folded, staring blankly at a full bowl of chowder.
After he finishes his beer he notices the other cowboy standing there staring at the chowder, The young cowboy bravely asked the old cowboy, "If you ain't gonna eat that, mind if I do?"
Much to the young cowboy's surprise the older cowboy slowly turns his head toward the young wrangler and in his best cowboy manner says, "Nah, go ahead."
Eagerly, the young cowboy reaches over and slides the bowl over to his place and starts spooning in it with delight. He gets nearly down to the bottom and notices a dead mouse. The sight was shocking and he immediately barfs up the chowder back into the bowl.
The old cowboy quietly says, "Yep, that's as far as I got, too."