American TV News shows proudly reviewed NASA's achievements, and the NASA website proclaimed "The end of the space shuttle program does not mean the end of NASA", but I could only feel that yet another part of America's "specialness" is gone. Another piece of the dream has been let go. Is America giving up? Is her leadership role really over? Is it really the start of China's century?
Is Obama responsible for America's shocking decline, or is he simply recognizing facts and bowing out gracefully?
Reprinted courtesy of Yaakov (Dry Bones) Kirschen www.DryBonesBlog.blogspot.com.
Garrett Reisman, with his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, who was the first Jewish member of the space station crew, went up the first time in 2008 where he was able to celebrate Israel's 60th anniversary. Israeli President Shimon Peres gave him the symbol of State of Israel to take with him for the occasion. His second trip was just in May of this year, where he and a fellow astronaut had to do a space walk in order to install an additional module to the space station.
The National Museum of American Jewish History hosted Reisman in a special event which was the first to be convened in the not-yet-completed new site of NMAJH. Reisman, dressed in a flight suit, entranced the crowd of founding members of the museum with his stories of his space flight and one very interesting challenge he encountered in trying to install the new module on the space station.
After a journey that spanned millions of miles - from South Florida to the International Space Station and back - the original April 2006 proclamation that created Jewish American Heritage Month will be presented by Jewish NASA astronaut Dr. Garrett E. Reisman to the National Museum of American Jewish History.
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