On Mar 4, 12:34*pm, "GordonD" wrote:
"Andre Lieven" wrote in message

...

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.

I'll put it this way... Vanguard 1, the oldest satellite still in
orbit,
is but four days older than I am.

But, I always outweighed it... :-)

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.

Kewl. I am happy that my dad saw it low flying over Montreal
while I was with my pals awaiting it landing in Ottawa that day.

Andre