LAUNCH MEMORY TO LAST, KIDS SAY.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer MOJAVE - Nearly 1,300 Palmdale youngsters - ranging from some who had never seen an airplane take off to others who are children and grandchildren GRANDCHILDREN, domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim. 6 Co. 16. of aerospace workers - watched and cheered as SpaceShipOne zoomed into space Monday. In Westside Union School District's biggest field trip, the youngsters boarded dozens of chartered buses before dawn for the trip to see an event their elders assured them they will long remember. ``We get to see an experience really happen for history, and we get to tell our grandchildren. That's what our teacher said,'' said 10-year-old Marina Gonzales, an Esperanza School student. The youngsters were guests of Rancho Vista developer Gregg Anderson, who invited pupils from Rancho Vista Elementary School elementary school: see school. , Esperanza School and Hillview Middle School Hillview Middle School is a public middle school in Menlo Park, California, part of the Menlo Park City School District. It is notable as having been named a California Distinguished School seven times. , all located within the Rancho Vista master-planned community. Westside Superintendent Regina Rossall, who was part of the airport crowd, quoted Anderson as having told her on the telephone, ``I'd really like to take kids out to see history being made.'' Some youngsters almost didn't get to see the flight. Seven chartered buses went to 35th Street East rather than the real pickup spot at the Rancho Vista Golf Course at 35th Street West. The last buses rolled up beside Mojave Airport's runway just as SpaceShipOne's mother ship started its takeoff roll, and youngsters watched out of the windows. ``They were really excited,'' Rossall said. One of the X Prize Foundation's goals in offering the $10 million prize won by famed Mojave aircraft designer Burt Rutan Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan (born June 17, 1943 in Estacada, Oregon) is an American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, energy-efficient aircraft. was to interest youngsters in space and science careers. That seemed to work with the young spectators. ``I want to go up in space. I think it would be really cool,'' 12-year-old Hillview student Amanda Wainscott said. Said schoolmate Kayla Goldberg, 12: ``I like jets. I wouldn't mind driving a jet someday.'' ``I've never seen a plane go up before. i think it is really awesome,'' said Esperanza pupil Savannah Savannah, city, United States Savannah, city (1990 pop. 137,560), seat of Chatham co., SE Ga., a port of entry on the Savannah River near its mouth; inc. 1789. Smith, 10. ``I think it's really cool that we get to see something that goes down in history. My dad even told me he saw the first man walk on the moon, and I thought that was cool,'' Esperanza pupil Ivy Bedard, 10, said. Parents also enjoyed the spectacle. ``It was awesome. It was history in the making,'' said Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. employee Paul Romer Paul Michael Romer is an economist and professor at Stanford University. He is considered as an expert on economic growth. Romer earned a B.S. in physics in 1977 and a Ph.D. in economics in 1983, both from the University of Chicago. , who drove his 12-year-old daughter Nina to the launch. Son Christopher, 9, went on a bus. ``I'd already decided to come out. I worked on the space shuttle space shuttle, reusable U.S. space vehicle. Developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), it consists of a winged orbiter, two solid-rocket boosters, and an external tank. program so this was something that we're interested in.'' ``It's definitely a great experience,'' his daughter added. |
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