Badge On The Moon

[AlphaSigOU]

During the Gemini 3 mission (unofficially called Molly Brown after the popular Broadway play and film, and alluding to commander Gus Grissom's near-death experience when his Mercury capsule sank) pilot John Young snuck a corned beef sandwich from a local Cocoa Beach deli aboard the spacecraft as a prank on Grissom, who was fond of them. (Back then, space food was prepared under strictly controlled conditions and was, to say the least, not very appetizing.)

Once Molly Brown was in orbit, Young reaches into his spacesuit pocket and offers the sandwich to Grissom, with the remark, "Care to have a bite, skipper?" Grissom did take a bite of the sandwich but didn't finish it off, due to concerns that floating crumbs might clog up a vital electrical contact of the spacecraft's instrumentation.

When they returned to Earth, both Young and Grissom were reprimanded by NASA management, and the half of Grissom's sandwich (with the single bite by Grissom) was reportedly preserved for eternity in Lucite by Young.

[KillarneyRose]

Originally posted by AXWhoah
Does it really matter?? Does anything on greekchat matter, no. It's just a place to shoot the s@*t, nothing here matters. If you think that anything here matters you're kidding yourself. And honestly what is with the old people here. I'm pretty sure that when I'm middle aged I will have a job and, um, a life! I just come on here now cause I'm stuck here in Tucson for summer school, it cuts the boredom. Seriouslly, grow up and get a life....

-- Throwing hissy fits on GreekChat since 6/02

[AOcutiePi4ever]

Originally posted by DeltAlum
OP,

See, here's what happened. You were right, in a way.

It was pinned to the flag on the moon, but the Lunar Winds blew it off.

Then a later astronaut accidentally kicked it up in the air, where, being so small, the moon's gravity wasn't enough to hold it down, so it floated off into space.

After several years of floating, it re-entered the earth's atmosphere, again, being so well constructed and small, it didn't burn up.

It landed in the Australian Outback, where it was found and picked up by a freelance production assistant on a Crockodile Dundee movie who took it to the Sydney Olympics and traded it to a pin collector, who couldn't read the Greek Alphabet, and was dissapointed when he found out it didn't belong to the Serbo-Croation Olympic Bobsled team (who somehow ended up in the Summer Games by mistake -- but due to a lack of competition, won a Bronze Medal) and then listed it on E-Bay.

Unfortunatley, it was purchased by a Veterinary Dentist who didn't realize what he had and melted down for use as a doggy filling.

It is now in somebody's pet's bicuspid -- somewhere in Cleveland, I think.

Doesn't that sound reasonable? At least as reasonable as pinning a sorority pin on a flag in those space suit gloves.

LOLOLOL!!! that cracked me up!! that was great!!

[33girl]

This is the real reason W wants to have missions to Mars!!! He talks to AXWhoah frequently and after he heard this oh so true and substantiated story, he was soooooooo jealous that AXO's pin is on the moon, so he is going to go one better by flying Laura and the twins to Mars. But they will all have to take individual spaceships because of the intergalactic brothel laws.

[honeychile]

Originally posted by 33girl
This is the real reason W wants to have missions to Mars!!! He talks to AXWhoah frequently and after he heard this oh so true and substantiated story, he was soooooooo jealous that AXO's pin is on the moon, so he is going to go one better by flying Laura and the twins to Mars. But they will all have to take individual spaceships because of the intergalactic brothel laws.

But only if Laura, Barbara, and Jenna can take their Kappa Alpha Theta pins with them!

[SigKapSweetie]

I'm almost afraid to join the discussion , so I will just add that one of our alumnae, Rhea Seddon, took her pin to the moon, but was kind enough to bring it back, since technically it belongs to NHQ...

[DeltAlum]

Sweetie,

As was mentioned, perhaps earlier in this thread, nobody will doubt that your sister may have taken a pin/badge into space on a shuttle, but no woman has as yet landed on or orbited the moon.

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by DeltAlum
Sweetie,

As was mentioned, perhaps earlier in this thread, nobody will doubt that your sister may have taken a pin/badge into space on a shuttle, but no woman has as yet landed on or orbited the moon.

And in case anyone's forgotten, the first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova, a cosmonaut of the former Soviet Union. She flew on Vostok 6 in 1963.

The first American woman in space was Sally Ride, who flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-7 in 1983.

The first woman to walk in space was cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. Kathryn Sullivan was the first American woman to walk in space on Space Shuttle mission 41-G in 1984.

[HotDamnImAPhiMu]

Originally posted by DeltAlum
Sweetie,

As was mentioned, perhaps earlier in this thread, nobody will doubt that your sister may have taken a pin/badge into space on a shuttle, but no woman has as yet landed on or orbited the moon.

We've been busy. We'll get to that.

[KillarneyRose]

Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
And in case anyone's forgotten, the first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova, a cosmonaut of the former Soviet Union. She flew on Vostok 6 in 1963.

Val is a Delta Zeta. Great girl!

The first American woman in space was Sally Ride, who flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-7 in 1983.

Sally is a Delta Zeta. That's why her space suit was pink and green with turtles on it.

The first woman to walk in space was cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. Kathryn Sullivan was the first American woman to walk in space on Space Shuttle mission 41-G in 1984.

Both DZ's. Not sure, but I think Lana and Kate were in the same pledge class. I'll have to check on that.

[DeltAlum]

Originally posted by HotDamnImAPhiMu
We've been busy. We'll get to that.

That would be terriffic. Will look forward to it.

[honeychile]

Originally posted by KillarneyRose
Val is a Delta Zeta. Great girl!




Sally is a Delta Zeta. That's why her space suit was pink and green with turtles on it.



Both DZ's. Not sure, but I think Lana and Kate were in the same pledge class. I'll have to check on that.

Valentina is only a DZ because we had to terminate her membership. She wouldn't wear the azure blue catsuit.

[TriDeltaGal]

Originally posted by HotDamnImAPhiMu
We've been busy. We'll get to that.

HotDamn, you crack me up!

[HotDamnImAPhiMu]

I heart crack!

[breathesgelatin]

Originally posted by honeychile
But only if Laura, Barbara, and Jenna can take their Kappa Alpha Theta pins with them!

Clearly Dubya isn't going to leave his MOTHER out. Barbara the elder is a Pi Beta Phi, thank you very much!! So our badge gets to Mars first.


LOL