May 7th, 2011, in Cocoa Beach. This may be the largest gathering of Astronauts ever assembled outside the Johnson Space Center, Astronaut Training, in Texas. The parade will start at exactly 9:34 am...the moment Alan Shepard was launched on his mission, 50 years ago. Astronauts scheduled to participate include Scott Carpenter, Mercury; Dick Gordon, Gemini, Apollo; Walt Cunningham, Apollo; Edgar "Ed" Mitchell, Apollo; Bill Pogue, Skylab; Jack Lousma, Skylab, Space Shuttle; Space Shuttle Astronauts Rick Hauck, Jon McBride, Fred Gregory, John Blaha, Bob Springer, Sam Durrance, Bob Cabana, Bruce Melnick, Susan (Still) Kilrain, Don McMonagle, and Jim "JR" Reilly; and Space Shuttle Payload Specialist John-David Bartoe. Its also the 86th Anniversary of Cocoa Beach.
Detroit is doing the following: to send 3 Corvettes for the all-day Cocoa Beach event this Saturday. They plan to send:
• 2012 Chevrolet Centennial Corvette Z06
• Z06X
• Centennial and SEMA Show Car Corvette "Jake" SEMA Car
Email me at:
john.e.legere@nasa.gov
for a copy of the flyer...