The “Spirit of St. Louis”, a Ryan Airlines built monoplane, was shipped back to the U. S. aboard a Navy cruiser and flew it’s last flight one year later on April 30, 1928.

I just have to share this…  humor…  for the future!

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Your Starship Captain Just Might Be A Redneck If…

• Your shuttle craft has been up on blocks for over a month
• He paints flames and a NRA sticker on the warp nacelles
• You have a shuttle called “Billy Joe Bob”
• He refers to Klingons as “Critters”
• He refers to Photon Torpedoes as “Popguns”
• He has the sensor array repaired with a bent coat hanger and aluminum foil
• He installs a set of bullhorns on the front of the saucer section
• He says “Got your ears on, good buddy” instead of “open hailing frequencies”
• He hangs fuzzy dice over the view screen
• He rewires his communicator into his belt buckle
• He keeps a six-pack under his command chair and a gun rack above it
• He says “Yee-Ha!” instead of “Engage”
• He has a hand-tooled holster for his phaser
• He insists on calling his executive officer “Bubba”
• He sets the forward view screen to reruns of “Bassmaster”
• He programs the food replicator for beer, ribs, and turnip green
• He paints the starship John Deere green
• He refers to a Pulsar as a “Blue Light Special”
• He refers to the Mutara Nebula as a “swamp”
• His moonshine is stronger than Romulan Ale
• He sings “Lucille” instead of “Kathleen”
• His idea of dress uniform is CLEAN bib overalls
• He wears mirrored shades on the Bridge
• His idea of a “gas giant” is that big ol’ XO Bubba after a meal of beans and weenies
• He sets phaser to “Cajun”

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and even more space humor…   in real life…

Navajo Wisdom

About 1966 or so, a NASA team doing work for the Apollo moon mission took the astronauts near Tuba City where the terrain of the Navajo Reservation looks very much like the Lunar surface. Along with all the trucks and large vehicles, there were two large figures dressed in full Lunar spacesuits.

Nearby a Navajo sheep herder and his son were watching the strange creatures walk about, occasionally being tended by personnel.  The two Navajo people were noticed and approached by the NASA personnel.  Since the man did not know English, his son asked for him what the strange creatures were and the NASA people told them that they are just men that are getting ready to go to the moon.

The man became very excited and asked if he could send a message to the moon with the astronauts. The NASA personnel thought this was a great idea so they rustled up a tape recorder. After the man gave them his message, they asked his son to translate.  His son would not.

Later, they tried a few more people on the reservation to translate and every person they asked would chuckle and then refuse to translate.

Finally, with cash in hand, someone translated the message, “Watch out for these guys, they come to take your land.”

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How about some true stories that beg the question, “Huh???”

True Story

Returning from a trip to Antarctica some years ago, Wernher von Braun, Ernst Stuhlinger, and other space scientists proudly showed pictures of themselves merrily running around a marker in the snow at the exact geographic South Pole. Stuhlinger explained: “We were setting a space speed record – orbiting the Earth every ten seconds”.

True Story

Shuttle project officials were not always candid about their early setbacks. One problem arose with the testing of new booster-rocket parachutes in drops from B-52 over the desert. The chutes failed, shredding as they plunged with a heavy attached test article and crashed to the desert floor. Already knowing the answer, a reporter asked if the test item was destroyed.

“Well,” hedged the project engineer, “let’s just say it is largely unreusable.”

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and some just plain silly stuff…

A blond, a brunette, and a redhead were trying out for a new NASA experiment on sending women to different planets. First they called the brunette in and asked her a question.

“If you could go to any planet, what planet would you want to go to and why?” After pondering the question she answered, “I would like to go to Mars because it seems so interesting with all the recent news about possible extra terrestrial life on the planet.”

They said “Well okay, thank you.” And told her that they would get back to her. Next, the redhead entered the room and the NASA people asked her the same question. In reply, “I would like to go to Saturn to see all of its rings.” Again, “thank you” and they would get back to her.

Finally, the blond entered the room and they asked her the same question they asked the brunette and the redhead. She thought for a while and replied, “I would like to go to the sun.”

The people from NASA replied, “Why, don’t you know that if you went to the sun you would burn to death?”

The blond smirked and put her hands on her hips. “Are you guys dumb? I’d go at night!”

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All of this comes to you as I celebrate another NASA inability to make use of German QD’s (quick disconnects for those reading this in Pacoima, CA).  They fixed the problem…   oh no, wait a minute…   they didn’t fix the problem.  If I remember correctly, they have launched over 100 space shuttles and a leaky hydrogen tank still upsets the apple cart…   go figure.

If you really think about it, would you go up in a space based tin can that acts like your current automobile?
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Not too long ago, a lone man in a single engine airplane flew out over the Atlantic ocean in a three thousand six hundred and twenty four mile journey.

In doing so, he set a record.

In doing so, he fired the imagination.

Until next week…