National Corvette Museum To Open NASA Exhibit
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NASA and space exploration may seem like a stretch to find a Chevrolet Corvette connection, but there’s actually a fairly healthy one.
The National Corvette Museum announced last week it plans to open a new NASA exhibit titled “From Gas Station, To Space Station: How NASA Conquered Low-Earth Orbit.” Next year marks the 50th anniversary of Commander Neil Armstrong‘s lunar landing and first step on the moon in 1969.
NCM Curator, Derek E. Moore, said the exhibit is an exciting way to tell the story of NASA’s accomplishments and where the human race has gone since the moon landing 50 years ago.
“This exhibit shows where we’ve gone since going to the moon and tells the story of where that transformative moment in history has led us,” he said. “We’ll be looking at some stories about how one becomes an astronaut and look into how we landed on the moon, and how that is leading us into the future.”
Not only will the exhibit look at the big picture, but it will also highlight Kentucky’s local connection to the space program. Terry Wilcutt’s actual flight suit, helmet, boots and glove will be on display in the exhibit—a local astronaut who has been on four space shuttle missions.
As for how the Corvette ties into the display, there’s a great history behind it. GM President Ed Cole originally gave Alan Shepard a new Corvette after becoming the first American to travel in space. From there, Florida Cadillac/Corvette dealer, Jim Rathmann offered a $1 lease program on Corvette models for any astronaut. Dozens took Rathmann up on the program through the Apollo 12 mission.
The new exhibit will open its doors on Jan 14 and run through July 30.
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When was America Great? When they landed on the moon, that’s when. Let’s Make America Great Again! Let’s see how NASA is doing today?
“When it comes to defending America, it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space. We must have American dominance in space.” Trump then directed the Department of Defense and the Pentagon to establish a Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces.
Even though America signed a treaty to never use space as a battleground.
Next – “Trump launched into remarks full of praise for the spaceflight industry in the United States. He highlighted private spaceflight companies and the “rich guys” who run them. We’re letting them use the Kennedy Space Center for a fee and, you know, rich guys, they love rocket ships,” Trump said. “That’s good. That’s better than us paying for them. And I noticed the prices of the last one, that they said it cost $80 million. If the government did it, the same thing would have cost probably 40, 50 times that amount of money.” So you know there’s only one rich guy launching from Kennedy, who is he? I don’t remember seeing any Trump lusters beaming with praise for Musk on here, yet their hero loves the one they hate! Trigger bait!
“ Trump offered praise for both commercial and federal space efforts. But he seemed, for a moment, to favor SpaceX over nasa.” See right there – Trump doesn’t care about American heroes at NASA and he’s giving out welfare for Musk’s space program. I can’t see better proof that Trump hates America, and loves rich people first.
“Blue Origin, the spaceflight company run by Jeff Bezos [owner of Amazon], plans to use a launchpad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to launch its New Glenn rocket.” another rich guy, another welfare-from-Trump guy.
“But for some in the space community, Trump’s latest remarks underscore the idea that the president is poorly informed about the status of nasa projects. The president often speaks about programs in broad, sweeping terms. “It’s not like he was outright bashing nasa, but clearly there was something there when he was comparing rocket prices,” said an engineer who works on the Orion capsule.”
“Trump spent most of his remarks Thursday talking about the engineering feats of SpaceX, not nasa. “I don’t know if you saw last—with Elon—with the rocket boosters where they’re coming back down,” he said. “To me, that was more amazing than watching the rocket go up, because I’ve never seen that before. Nobody’s seen that before, where they’re saving the boosters, and they came back without wings, without anything. They landed so beautifully.” – right out of the Mouth of the United States, trump himself praising Elon Musk to the heavens, literally.
Love Trump and Hate Musk? This is your brain on triggerment.
Sorry, forgot to attribute reference to “The Atlantic”.
Being a baby boomer and during the first astronaut training for the mercury mission, they were national heroes. Everyone wanted to be an astronaut or play baseball like Mickey Mantle. But the Corvette, It was cool, no other car was like it before and it cost more than the Impala with no room for a suitcase. The are now called the C2 and C3 and were the best looking ever.