NASA Birthday Parties In DC

1. It’s the peasant’s job to pay taxes, not to party ?

2. Well, I don’t see any reason we couldn’t start a revolution. Let’s have some grass roots celebrations of the Apollo program which do _not_ invite major aerospace contractors or senior NASA managers. If they can have a party without us, we can have a party without them. Perhaps not as fancy and without the catering, but so what. I could try to set something up in Boulder on July 20th of next year. Would anyone be willing to add more cities to the list?

   1. That is how Yuri’s day started.

      1. Yuri’s Night at Ames was less about space than it was about Burning Man, pretty much a drug filled hula hoop weirdo-fest.

         1. And which holiday is any different? How many people remember something on Memorial Day? Or thank something on Thanksgiving? I’ve got relatives who ask if I’ll visit them over the Christmas holidays, and they are either daoist or Jewish. It’s pretty rare for a holiday to retain much of it’s original meaning.

   2. Been doing Moon Day in D/FW for a decade now, the largest annual space expo in the great State of Texas:
      https://www.flightmuseum.co…
      FWIW, NASA didn’t show up until year eight, after we’d had our live ARISS Uplink with the Russians.

      1. Congress really should make a holiday out of July 20. Not only does it mark when humans landed on the Moon, but also when Viking landed on Mars. Both would make it a good holiday to honor the spirit of exploration.

         1. Why? My understanding is that people have been working towards exactly what you describe since the 1970s. The results speak for themselves. FWIW, NASM celebrates July 20th as Mars Day.

            Here in Texas, we don’t need the government to tell us to have a party. We just have a space party, the hella-awesome Moon Day, whether NASA or the Space Industrial Complex shows up or not. We’re glad NASA (and the SIC) is finally participating, but they aren’t required or even necessary. Nor are underwriters. And yet we’ve managed to create the premier Summer STEM event in North Texas over the last decade. That’s how the visitors describe it; I just repeat it because it ain’t braggin’ if it’s true.

            According to the media, one youngster was back for his fourth year in 2018. Science teachers make pilgrimages from across the state to load up on info. The Girl Scouts love us. We’ve had visitors from as far away as CA, NY and WY (and Germany). Folks from Houston complain about having to drive four hours each way to celebrate the Moon landing since there’s nothing equivalent down there.

            Congress? Why bother? Turn that energy towards creating a local space celebration instead and, you know:

            Make Something Happen Instead Of Just Talking About It Or Waiting For Someone Else To Do It!!!

3. October 11 will be the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 7, the first in the string of flights that led to the Moon landing. Hopefully there will be an event to honor it.

   1. Yes there will be:

      https://www.flightmuseum.co…

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