Re: Generation Gap

From: Art Glick (omb00900@mail.wvnet.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2008 - 05:56:27 UTC

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    >Most of the real active observers are in their late years-when they 
    >depart for a different plane where are their successors? There are 
    >certainly no prospects in my part of the world....
    
    I think that this has to do with the fact that people in my 
    generation lived through the birth of the space program, Greg.  My 
    children (born in 1983 & 1987) take it all for granted.
    
    My youngest had the opportunity in elementary school to polish 
    mirrors for the first Starshine satellite.  We traveled down to the 
    Cape with VIP passes for the launch, and my daughter was one of only 
    two students selected worldwide to participate in the NASA press 
    conference pertaining to the project.
    
    To me it was the experience of a lifetime, but my daughter later 
    admitted that her participation was mostly to please me.  It meant 
    very little to her that something she actually touched was in outer space.
    
    Theirs is a jaded generation in more ways than one!
    
    Best Regards to All,
    
    Art
    
    
    
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