Parade of Astronauts...

vettejack · 05-04-2011, 03:05 PM

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...

vettejack · 05-06-2011, 10:55 AM

Early parade: Yes!

Once in a lifetime moment: Priceless!!

vettejack · 05-06-2011, 11:29 AM

The video is about 4:40 minutes long, black and white, featuring most of the Corvettes driven by the Astronauts of the day…but the narration is in German. The appreciation is of course directed at viewing a very rare Astronaut/Corvette relationship and a video most have never seen.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=70481

vettejack · 05-06-2011, 12:12 PM

enjoy!!

vettejack · 05-09-2011, 08:00 AM

and our silver '82 carrrying Walt Cunningham...the only surviving Apollo 7 Astronaut. Traci driving..........

vettejack · 05-09-2011, 08:01 AM

and getting my '06 signed by an Astronaut!

vettejack · 05-09-2011, 08:04 AM

shoulda been there! History drove by!

**Rich Z** · 05-09-2011, 12:18 PM

Looks like it was a pretty cool event.

Thanks for the pics!

THOR · 05-09-2011, 08:00 PM

Wow. Thanks for sharing. I saw the Right Stuff not to long ago on TV and it's as good now as when it came out.

vettejack · 05-10-2011, 09:15 AM

so, I will be leaving for California the 14th of May. This is how its done here at NASA...the California team leaves two days prior. Of course that could change with the launch once again being scrubed.

Either way, I'm there until it lands...either back here at KSC, or in California. If it returns here at KSC, then I leave California the next day. If Endeavour lands in California (i.e., weather), then I'll be there an additional two weeks while the Orbiter is mounted to the 747. I'll then travel with the team to each fuel stop for inspections until we return to KSC.