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         The life and times of Mark and Paula Persons
Thursday, January 22, 2015: 

Mark and his friend Jim Barry toured the Kennedy space Center. 

Plenty to see there.
These are rockets left over from the space program dating back to the early 1960s.

Nice for the public to see them on display.
Jim was checking a rocket engines from the Apollo program that took men to the moon.

It generated 7.5 million pounds of thrust to propel space vehicles.

Talk about heavy lifting!
Mark enjoyed seeing real space hardware.

He grew up watching the space program unfold.
The original control room at the Kennedy Space Center.  This one sent men to the moon.
 
Mark and about fifty other people had lunch with retired astronaut Al Worden.  Mark congratulated Warden and remembered him as the Command Module Pilot on the Apollo 15 moon shot in July 1971.

Worden remained onboard the orbiter while astronauts David Scott and James Irwin descended to the moon.  From that, Worden claimed he had more flying hours in space than the other two astronauts.  Mark and Worden both have grey hair after all these years!
It was time for dinner after all that space stuff. 

This time it was with Lynn and Jim Barry at another local hot spot.

The ladies described the purchases they made that day while shopping.

The food was very good too.
Quote of the day:    Another great day in Florida.   Mark    < Back to previous story Ahead to next story >

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