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Hey, @astrohokie - did you see one of the Blue Origin astronauts yesterday


was Laura Shepard Churchley, daughter of Adm. Alan Shepard ?

from source:
"Churchley recounted standing outside with her father watching the Soviet Union's Sputnik satellite launch on Oct. 4, 1957, which was the first human-made object made in space.

She then discussed what happened just a couple of years later, before Shepard and the rest of the Mercury 7 astronauts were announced publicly on April 9, 1959. At the time, she was about 11 or 12 years old.

" 'Daddy announced to me, 'I'm going to be working for NASA. I'm going to be an astronaut'," Churchley recalled. After asking her father what an astronaut means, she said that he told her, "NASA is going to put me into a spacecraft on top of a rocket. The rocket is going to blast me up into space. And I will come back to Earth safely.'"

"And I said 'OK,' have a good trip, Daddy'," she said.


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