Comments on: House approves bill to rename NASA Dryden after Neil Armstrong

By: Robert G. Oler

Robert G. Oler — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:44:36 +0000

an excellent Twilight Zone episode comes to mind…707 circling overhead New York, time travel…and you are in the Twilight Zone…it was Idlewild.

By: NeilShipley

NeilShipley — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:24:02 +0000

Did you? Irrelevant argument anyway. No comment here will have one iota of influence on the final outcome.

By: common sense

common sense — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 03:36:00 +0000

I am glad to see that DCSCA is doing well, after a pretty long hiatus that felt like vacation though. Our friend is all up and running full steam ahead.

But Neil and the others I have to ask why, really, oh why? Why do you do that? I am a US citizen and I paid for the privilege, whatever that is. Goes to show you that here in the US we are ready to pay for anything, to exploit any possibility even that of knowing where DCSCA is posting from.

I once talked to my wall and told it to move away from me. I spent hours doing that. In the end the wall did not move. I feel philosophical tonight.

Happy New Year DCSCA, even though I believe you once said you were british… Not sure how much you paid yourself then…

By: DCSCA

DCSCA — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 03:36:25 +0000

Or was it Idlewild? Senior moment. No matter. Honoring Neil in the aviation community would me with his approval, albeit with characteristic modesty.

By: mike shupp

mike shupp — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:12:52 +0000

Odds are, there aren’t 5 Congressment in the USA who have any recollection of whom Hugh Dryden might be, and not a one of their several thousand staffers. So renaming a NASA center to honor a Famous Man rather than a nonentity probably looks completely reasonable.

But that’s all right. The next big issue, to really awake all our partisan juices: do we rename Goddard SFC after Buzz Aldrin or Barbara Miluski?

By: DCSCA

DCSCA — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:17:58 +0000

“I donâ€™t see why he [Dryden] should be penalized.”

Get some glasses. LaGuardia Airport was named for Firoella LaGuardia, a mayor. It was renamed JFK. A President. Dryden was talking about flying to Mars in 1964. Alas, Neil actually went to the mono in 1969. Neil’s bootprints bigfoot Cryden’s talk. .

By: Robert G. Oler

Robert G. Oler — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:07:27 +0000

the thing that struck me is that the HOR has fallen to the point where bills like this are really about all it can do.

I dont see the fascination with renaming things either…Why not name a PMA after Armstrong? Or why name anything after him right now? really maybe someday some group on the Moon will do that.

This is just well goofiness from a GOP house that is well self destructing. (so fun to watch) RGO

By: DCSCA

DCSCA — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:46:58 +0000

You have not paid for the privledge. Citizens of the United States have.

By: amightywind

amightywind — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 14:30:12 +0000

They did not remove his name, they just moved it. There is no dishonor in making room for Neil Armstrong. At least it wasn’t Sally Ride.

By: James

James — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:58:07 +0000

Since Congress is in the business of re naming NASA Centers, I suggest that MSFC be renamed Goddard Space Flight Center, since Dr. Goddard is more associated with the advances in modern rocketry, which is MSFC’s forte’. And rename Goddard after Dr. Edwin Hubble, since Goddard was the lead for all the Hubble servicing missions,and is more closely associated with Space Science than was Dr. Goddard.

JSC should be renamed JYSC, John Young Space Center, after the only Astronaut to have flown on Gemini, Apollo and Shuttle.

Its the new year folks,,lets have some fun here!