{"id":414,"date":"2011-07-08T09:56:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T15:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/50.87.217.193\/blog\/just-thought-id-share-this-nasa-moment-with-you-all-as-atlantis-lifted-off-for-the-last-time-i-watched-it-live-then-sent"},"modified":"2021-04-04T00:16:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T06:16:36","slug":"just-thought-id-share-this-nasa-moment-with-you-all-as-atlantis-lifted-off-for-the-last-time-i-watched-it-live-then-sent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/just-thought-id-share-this-nasa-moment-with-you-all-as-atlantis-lifted-off-for-the-last-time-i-watched-it-live-then-sent\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Connection – Our Astronaut Friend from EWB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just thought I’d share this NASA moment with you all –<\/p>\n

As Atlantis lifted off for the last time, I watched it live, then sent a
\ncongratulatory text to Dr Jack Bacon at NASA (an Intl Space Station
\nmanager – NASA Engineers Without Borders contact for us).<\/p>\n

He just replied to me that there is a packet of dried pineapple going up on
\nthe shuttle to EWB astronaut Ron Garan who is now on the space station – the pineapple was dried in the EWB village-sized food dryer that eQuilter
\nfunded – it was built and tested in Houston\/Johnson Space Center NASA –
\nbeing constructed at an orphanage in Rwanda later this month with eQuilter
\nfinancial support. (We’ve also helped to fund a clean water system in Rwanda previous to this)<\/p>\n

So there’s a little connection from eQuilter on the way to space at this
\nmoment!<\/p>\n

Jack and his wife witnessed the launch at NASA and are teary-eyed… me too!<\/p>\n

When I go to Houston for the big quilt festival in late October, I have dinner with Jack and Kathy. Last time I got the VIP tour of the Johnson Space Center, then had dinner with all the self-described rocket scientists
\nof their EWB chapter, and sat next to Ron who will be eating that dried
\npineapple later today perhaps! When Jack calls up to Ron on the station, he tells him about our quilt drive for Japan, etc….. so very cool that
\neQuilter and my name is mentioned up on the Space Station.<\/p>\n

\nhttp:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/US\/07\/08\/space.shuttle\/index.html?hpt=hp_c1<\/a><\/p>\nShare Post:<\/strong>
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