Space Shuttle: 20 Years "ISS solar panel" page
What a wonderful keepsake, I’ll take good care of it! - Michelle Miller, Assistant Director of Development
From an e-mail: Bob Thirsk was there and he signed your book and photo. He even commented that it was honor to sign next to Foreman and Anderson! ...
Thirsk was very impressed with your book. He spent roughly 4-5 minutes flipping through it and talking to me about it.
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When I saw that ret. Navy Capt. Michael J. Foreman was going to be appearing at event, I jumped at the chance to add another autograph to my "Space Shuttle: The First 20 Years" book.
Just don't confuse Mike Foreman with another NASA astronaut, Michael E. Fossum, as I almost did! (See Foreman's photo for an explanation of that.)
Foreman was the kickoff speaker for Case Western Reserve University's Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. He flew on two Shuttle missions, STS-123/Endeavour and STS-129/Atlantis.
I needed a page for Foreman to sign - I already had signatures on pages I used for Endeavour and Atlantis astronauts, although I could have started another page, showing the STS-68/Endeavour flight on the launch pad for Foreman.
Then I remembered this page, showing the International Space Station's solar arrays, which provided a nice contrast for Foreman's signature. Fitting, too, since his flights were ISS-related. 21 Jan. 2015, Cleveland, Ohio.
And since I needed a page for Clayton C. Anderson to sign - an astronaut who spent a little more than 150 days as part of Exp. 15 and 16, as well as flew on STS-131/Discovery to bring supplies to the International Space Station - I chose this page as well. 4 Mar. 2015, Des Moines Area Community College, W. Des Moines, Iowa.
Sergei K. Krikalev and Robert B. Thirsk were going to be at the same event, and a friend took my book along. What page for them to sign?
I didn't want my friend to flip through pages, so I also chose this page.
Krikalev canceled due to illness, but this was still a good page for Thirsk. While his first flight was on STS-78/Columbia, a Spacelab flight, he later became the first Canadian to fly a long-duration mission on ISS, as part of the Exp. 20/21 crews, so this was also a fitting page. 16 June 2015, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.
I was looking for a page for Navy Cmdr. William A. Oefelein to sign; he was pilot of STS-116, a Discovery flight. My other Discovery page was getting full and there was but one other good but small image of that shuttle, docked to ISS - so this page was used as a fallback.
One Giant Leap held a private signing with Oefelein, who no longer signs through the mail, only in-person. However, circumstances dictated that material be sent to Oefelein, which was mailed back to OGL and from there to participants of the signing. Early August 2015, Wasilla, Alaska - the furthest my book has traveled to get signed!
Also signing: Navy Capt. Sunita L. "Suni" Williams, who came home on STS-117/Atlantis, the same flight that brought Clay Anderson to the International Space Station (which is why I chose this page, rather than the pages I have for Atlantis or Discovery astronauts.)
Williams launched on STS-116/Discovery as part of Expedition 14/15. She later launched and landed on Soyuz TMA-05M as part of Expediton 32/33.
With 50 hours and 40 minutes, Williams once again holds the record for total cumulative spacewalk time by a female astronaut. In addition, Williams, who has spent a total of 322 days in space on two missions, now ranks sixth on the all-time U.S. endurance list, and second all-time for a female astronaut. Concord, N.H., 7 May 2016.
Stephen K. Robinson also signed this page, at the 44th Space Congress. In addition to his four space shuttle missions - STS-85/Discovery; STS-95/Discovery; STS-114/Discovery and STS-130/Endeavour - Robinson served as a backup flight engineer to the ISS Expedition 4 crew. Cape Canaveral, 25 May 2016.
A last-minute OK to send the book for ret. Navy Cmdr. John B. Herrington led me to select this page, as he did a spacewalk on STS-113/Endeavour to activate and outfit the P1 Truss segment of the International Space Station.
And where else should Peggy A. Whitson sign, considering she flew on three ISS missions, among her other accomplishments? New York, NY, 24 Feb. 2018.
So, on this page: eight signatures. Anderson was the No. 180 overall signature in my book. Thirsk was the No. 190 overall signature.
Space Shuttle: 20 Years "ISS solar panel" page
What a wonderful keepsake, I’ll take good care of it! - Michelle Miller, Assistant Director of Development
From an e-mail: Bob Thirsk was there and he signed your book and photo. He even commented that it was honor to sign next to Foreman and Anderson! ...
Thirsk was very impressed with your book. He spent roughly 4-5 minutes flipping through it and talking to me about it.
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When I saw that ret. Navy Capt. Michael J. Foreman was going to be appearing at event, I jumped at the chance to add another autograph to my "Space Shuttle: The First 20 Years" book.
Just don't confuse Mike Foreman with another NASA astronaut, Michael E. Fossum, as I almost did! (See Foreman's photo for an explanation of that.)
Foreman was the kickoff speaker for Case Western Reserve University's Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. He flew on two Shuttle missions, STS-123/Endeavour and STS-129/Atlantis.
I needed a page for Foreman to sign - I already had signatures on pages I used for Endeavour and Atlantis astronauts, although I could have started another page, showing the STS-68/Endeavour flight on the launch pad for Foreman.
Then I remembered this page, showing the International Space Station's solar arrays, which provided a nice contrast for Foreman's signature. Fitting, too, since his flights were ISS-related. 21 Jan. 2015, Cleveland, Ohio.
And since I needed a page for Clayton C. Anderson to sign - an astronaut who spent a little more than 150 days as part of Exp. 15 and 16, as well as flew on STS-131/Discovery to bring supplies to the International Space Station - I chose this page as well. 4 Mar. 2015, Des Moines Area Community College, W. Des Moines, Iowa.
Sergei K. Krikalev and Robert B. Thirsk were going to be at the same event, and a friend took my book along. What page for them to sign?
I didn't want my friend to flip through pages, so I also chose this page.
Krikalev canceled due to illness, but this was still a good page for Thirsk. While his first flight was on STS-78/Columbia, a Spacelab flight, he later became the first Canadian to fly a long-duration mission on ISS, as part of the Exp. 20/21 crews, so this was also a fitting page. 16 June 2015, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.
I was looking for a page for Navy Cmdr. William A. Oefelein to sign; he was pilot of STS-116, a Discovery flight. My other Discovery page was getting full and there was but one other good but small image of that shuttle, docked to ISS - so this page was used as a fallback.
One Giant Leap held a private signing with Oefelein, who no longer signs through the mail, only in-person. However, circumstances dictated that material be sent to Oefelein, which was mailed back to OGL and from there to participants of the signing. Early August 2015, Wasilla, Alaska - the furthest my book has traveled to get signed!
Also signing: Navy Capt. Sunita L. "Suni" Williams, who came home on STS-117/Atlantis, the same flight that brought Clay Anderson to the International Space Station (which is why I chose this page, rather than the pages I have for Atlantis or Discovery astronauts.)
Williams launched on STS-116/Discovery as part of Expedition 14/15. She later launched and landed on Soyuz TMA-05M as part of Expediton 32/33.
With 50 hours and 40 minutes, Williams once again holds the record for total cumulative spacewalk time by a female astronaut. In addition, Williams, who has spent a total of 322 days in space on two missions, now ranks sixth on the all-time U.S. endurance list, and second all-time for a female astronaut. Concord, N.H., 7 May 2016.
Stephen K. Robinson also signed this page, at the 44th Space Congress. In addition to his four space shuttle missions - STS-85/Discovery; STS-95/Discovery; STS-114/Discovery and STS-130/Endeavour - Robinson served as a backup flight engineer to the ISS Expedition 4 crew. Cape Canaveral, 25 May 2016.
A last-minute OK to send the book for ret. Navy Cmdr. John B. Herrington led me to select this page, as he did a spacewalk on STS-113/Endeavour to activate and outfit the P1 Truss segment of the International Space Station.
And where else should Peggy A. Whitson sign, considering she flew on three ISS missions, among her other accomplishments? New York, NY, 24 Feb. 2018.
So, on this page: eight signatures. Anderson was the No. 180 overall signature in my book. Thirsk was the No. 190 overall signature.