Interviews / Astronaut Michael J. Massimino - The Sensitive Explorer

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"On my first flight Duane “Digger” Carey, the pilot, was a rookie with me; we went through astronaut training together. As pilot, he doesn’t get to do any spacewalks, so he told me that he wanted to hear everything about it when I came back in—“I want to hear everything: descriptions, details—explain everything perfectly right away,” he said. So sure enough, when I come in, Digger takes my helmet off and puts it to the side. He’s staring right at me and says, “What was it like?” He’s right in my face, and I’m stuck in this spacesuit, and all I can answer is “The Earth is a planet.”

He says, “What have you been smoking inside your spacesuit?” But that was my revelation! It is strange what goes through your mind out there. Of course, I learned that the Earth was a planet when I was a little kid; “Every good mother does fine” or “My very educated mother just gave me nine pizza pies,” whatever the planet saying is. Sure, I knew that. But when you truly see it, you realize that it is not this two-dimensional home we think it is."

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Large Hadron Rap

Branson Unveils Spacecraft

Mark Dusenberry Fund

Donations to help Mark Dusenberry, Seriously injured in crash of his 1905 Wright Flyer Replica at Huffman Field in October, can be made to: The Citizens Bank, 141 N. Broadway St., New Philadelphia, OH 44663 Write "Mark Dusenberry Fund" on Memo line of any checks.

Les Paul

Les Paul died this past August. He was an inventor, a recording engineer, and one of the finest guitarists the world has known.

Here is an American Masters presentation of "Les Paul - Chasing Sound"

This is a 10 minute version - the entire program can be viewed at Hulu

1935 Engineers' Club Historical Video

Watch the 1935 film, in which Charles Kettering and Edward Deeds reminisce about the Engineers Club and greet Orville Wright in the Engineers Club library. Take a walking tour of the Club in 1935.

Go to http://www.engineersclubofdaytonfoundation.org/story_engineers_club.html to see this historic film.

Watch The Wright Brothers ~ In Flight. Vintage footage includes 1908-1909 flights at Fort Myer, France and Italy – as well as the first motion pictures taken from an airplane. This is a new edit of century-old motion picture footage, made for the Engineers Club of Dayton Foundation. Dayton's legacy of innovation goes far beyond the Wright Brothers. The Foundation wants to capture the stories of Dayton's living innovators in their own words and pictures with a multimedia website. Dayton Innovation Legacy will be an internet resource that anyone can access. See more at www.DaytonInnovationLegacy.org