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post Jan 13 2010, 04:11 PM
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A really superb guest for all you space fans.
Gerry will be with us all weekend.

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Gerald D. "Gerry" Griffin is a pioneer in human space flight for the U.S. space program. He is the former director of the NASA-Johnson Space Center in Houston, Deputy Director at the NASA-Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the NASA-Dryden Flight Research Center in California. In the early days of his career, he was lead flight director in Mission Control for three lunar landings during the Apollo program, and was an integral part of the team that helped the astronauts of Apollo 13 safely return to Earth after their oxygen tank exploded on their journey to the moon. His real-life experience during this near disaster caught the attention of Hollywood, and he was hired as technical advisor on the 1995 Universal Pictures' blockbuster, Apollo 13. He has since consulted, and even acted, in two other space-oriented major motion pictures.

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post Jan 13 2010, 04:22 PM
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Thats the sort of thing we like to see!!

Great job on getting him along

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post Jan 13 2010, 04:43 PM
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Well done Showmasters. A first class space guest to announce. There will be a lot of satisfied space punters happy with this one. Bravo.
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post Jan 14 2010, 10:27 AM
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SUPERB!

And he's one of the friendliest blokes you could hope to meet! Nice one! keep 'em coming showmasters!!!
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post Jan 14 2010, 10:48 PM
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Well Done Showmasters. YAHOO.GIF

Gerry is a superb guest..now keep those space guests rolling!

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Shows attended:Autographica 14, Autographica 15.

Guests met: Dave Scott, Scott Carpenter, Al Worden, Tom Stafford, Jim McDivitt, Fred Haise, Gerry Griffin, Vance Brand, Ed Gibson, Capt.Eric 'Winkle' Brown,Capt.Billy Drake & the great Leslie Nielsen. :)

Plan to attend:Autographica 16, September 2010.
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post Jan 17 2010, 10:40 AM
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Excellent, well done Showmasters, he really is a giant from the good ol' days of real spaceflight

Keep 'em coming

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PS Ed Mitchell is over here giving a lecture - will he be at Autgraphica?


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post Jan 17 2010, 11:21 AM
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well done a good name in the show, what about Gene Kranz


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post Jan 17 2010, 11:54 AM
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QUOTE(prendy9160 @ Jan 17 2010, 10:21 AM) *

well done a good name in the show, what about Gene Kranz



Strongly second that. What a great combination that would be.
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post Jan 17 2010, 08:45 PM
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QUOTE(von Dawson's Express @ Jan 17 2010, 11:40 AM) *

Excellent, well done Showmasters, he really is a giant from the good ol' days of real spaceflight

Keep 'em coming

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PS Ed Mitchell is over here giving a lecture - will he be at Autgraphica?


Where is this lecture?? Website?
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post Jan 17 2010, 09:49 PM
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Where is this lecture?? Website?


Hi,
See here for details on the Mitchell lecture (tickets just £30):

http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum23/HTML/002458.html

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post Jan 21 2010, 06:48 PM
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[font=Tahoma][size=4] Mr Griffin is an excellent support-act, but we all wait with bated breath for some Astronauts to be announced! blink.gif
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post Jan 22 2010, 11:07 AM
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Comment from the Smithsonian Magazine 'Air and Space' (November 2006):
'Astronauts get the glory, but flight directors run the show'.

A reason to cosider the inclusion of Gerry Griffin as an event of major significance.

Kudos to the Showmasters Team.
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post Feb 11 2010, 11:07 PM
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If you could get Haise and Lovell to come aswell then that would be fantastic!!!!
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