19 Ohio astronauts appeared in Cleveland August 29, 2008 to celebrate NASA's 50th anniversary. John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, Jim Lovell, veteran of two Apollo missions, and Kathryn Sullivan, the first woman to walk in space joined 15 other astronauts from Ohio.
The Ohio aerospace community hosted the event to celebrate 50 years of NASA innovation, inspiration, and discovery, the achievements of NASA's Glenn Research Center, and to salute Ohio's astronauts.
Glenn, a former Ohio senator, was the honorary chairman of the event and veteran NBC News Space Correspondent Jay Barbree, the only journalist to cover every manned space launch in the United States, was the keynote speaker.
Barbree moderated "A Conversation with the Astronauts," during which the 19 astronauts in attendance reminisced about their spaceflight experiences. These are the highlights of the conversation.
Kathryn Sullivan is not from Ohio. She is from New Jersey. She was not the first woman to walk in space. The first woman to walk in space was Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya. Kathryn Sullivan was the first American woman to walk in space... A retired NASA Glenn aerospace engineer with over 33 years at NASA Lewis/Glenn.
SneakyGuy55 6 months ago
I wish there were more than 242 views of this video. We launched great men, into the great beyond, and more people talk about the slickness of the iPhone's new interface.
hellohistory 2 years ago