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No. They have Citgo stations on the base.... I guess ole Hugo's the one helping the space program. I'm thinking I might be able to get them down off the price since it wouldn't tank nearly anything to ship it over to my house. They wouldn't even have to fill the tanks all the way. Heck, it'd probably only be a 30 second fly over tops from their pad to my house.
Sadly though, I just found out the other day the Guenter passed away just this past May. I'd have really liked to have had him lock me out before touching off.Guenter Wendt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I met him one time a couple of years ago at a Luncheon during the Astronaut Hall of Fame Induction. They were having the Lunch with an Astronaut at KSC and me and the family were there. My son(and me) love that place better than Disney sometimes. Well, one of the Astronauts that was there at the luncheon was John Young, one of my heroes growing up and the only one to have walked on the Moon and flown the Shuttle. Anyway, the family and I were seated at a table with others listening to Young and the other Astronaut talk about their experiences and I was chatting with this very old man about Space and how my son seems to have the same interest in it as I did when I was his age. I told him my heroes were Buzz Aldrin and John Young. I talked about how after watching the movie "The Right Stuff", I learned that the one guy at the pad who locked them out, The **** of the Luanch Pad I think, was truly the most important man in the entire program. How it was his responsibility to make sure everything was perfect, etc, etc. He corrected me and told me the guy was called the Furor of the Pad. Well, Q&A time was coming to a close and the host of the program told the Astronauts there was one last question from the audience and they would truly appreciate answering him. It was their old friend since nearly the beginning, Guenter Wendt. Then the host handed the microphone over to the gentleman I had been talking to all that time. I choked. Literally.
After all was said and done I looked at him and he told me I looked like a little boy who'd just seen Santa for the first time. I told him that I'd been "A Fan" of his for years. Learning from the Apollo disaster, Challenger, all the things that truly had to go right to make things happen. It all came down to him. His response:
" I was no more important than the Janitor. Because, if he didn't so his job, I'd be up to my neck in $H!^!" That was the kind of guy he was. One of the most important, unsung heroes of the Space Race and to him, he was just another guy doing a job. No big deal.
Sadly though, I just found out the other day the Guenter passed away just this past May. I'd have really liked to have had him lock me out before touching off.Guenter Wendt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I met him one time a couple of years ago at a Luncheon during the Astronaut Hall of Fame Induction. They were having the Lunch with an Astronaut at KSC and me and the family were there. My son(and me) love that place better than Disney sometimes. Well, one of the Astronauts that was there at the luncheon was John Young, one of my heroes growing up and the only one to have walked on the Moon and flown the Shuttle. Anyway, the family and I were seated at a table with others listening to Young and the other Astronaut talk about their experiences and I was chatting with this very old man about Space and how my son seems to have the same interest in it as I did when I was his age. I told him my heroes were Buzz Aldrin and John Young. I talked about how after watching the movie "The Right Stuff", I learned that the one guy at the pad who locked them out, The **** of the Luanch Pad I think, was truly the most important man in the entire program. How it was his responsibility to make sure everything was perfect, etc, etc. He corrected me and told me the guy was called the Furor of the Pad. Well, Q&A time was coming to a close and the host of the program told the Astronauts there was one last question from the audience and they would truly appreciate answering him. It was their old friend since nearly the beginning, Guenter Wendt. Then the host handed the microphone over to the gentleman I had been talking to all that time. I choked. Literally.
After all was said and done I looked at him and he told me I looked like a little boy who'd just seen Santa for the first time. I told him that I'd been "A Fan" of his for years. Learning from the Apollo disaster, Challenger, all the things that truly had to go right to make things happen. It all came down to him. His response:
" I was no more important than the Janitor. Because, if he didn't so his job, I'd be up to my neck in $H!^!" That was the kind of guy he was. One of the most important, unsung heroes of the Space Race and to him, he was just another guy doing a job. No big deal.
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