"Andre Lieven" wrote in message
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My personal connections to the Shuttle era are not major, just
that of a SF fan and space geek who was about to hit my teens
as Apollo was winding down.

Which makes you a year or two younger than me. I turned seven the day Gemini
3 flew.

Then, in 1983, when NASA 905 hauled Enterprise back from
the Paris Air Show, it landed for a day in Ottawa. Two pals
picked me up, and they had legit press passes, so we got to
see both vehicles very up close.

I saw it at Stansted Airport near London. I happened to be on holiday there
at the time so went along to see it - me and 299,999 others! I still have
the souvenir baseball cap I bought that day.
--
Gordon Davie
Edinburgh, Scotland

"Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God."