Amelia Earhart's Scarf to be flown to space station


	Amelia Earhart's Scarf to be flown to space station

Kelika

10-28-2009 10:12 AM

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10-28-2009 4:10 PM

debbyski

This is so cool. I love this picture too.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/495ae9eb-9d62-4113-bf8b-f8c01a998f2a/553BAE56-C931-435C-B9C2-0A120F52F0DF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.discovery.com/space_disco/2009/10/amelia-earharts-scarf-to-be-flown-to-the-space-station.html" href="http://blogs.discovery.com/space_disco/2009/10/amelia-earharts-scarf-to-be-flown-to-the-space-station.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.discovery.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovery.com/space_disco/2009/10/amelia-earharts-scarf-to-be-flown-to-the-space-station.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.discovery.com/img/408CB93F-24CF-43E6-8452-C50B2E70273B" alt="AE" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovery.com/space_disco/2009/10/amelia-earharts-scarf-to-be-flown-to-the-space-station.html"><P>Earhart, who became famous as the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1933, hired an official photographer named Albert Bresnik in 1932 and now his grandson is about to honor the great female aviator by carrying one of her scarves to the International Space Station (ISS).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovery.com/space_disco/2009/10/amelia-earharts-scarf-to-be-flown-to-the-space-station.html"><P>"We are flying Amelia Earhart's favorite scarf that she unfortunately did not take with her on her final mission," said Randy Bresnik, mission specialist on the STS-129 Atlantis launch to the ISS, when he spoke with <A href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-102109a.html" linkindex="24">collectSPACE during a recent interview</A>. "Fortunately, she also decided not to take her photographer with her otherwise I might not be here today."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovery.com/space_disco/2009/10/amelia-earharts-scarf-to-be-flown-to-the-space-station.html"><P>In 1929, Earhart founded an international female aviator's organization called the Ninety-Nines, and the scarf has been borrowed from the organization's Museum of Women Pilots in Oklahoma City.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovery.com/space_disco/2009/10/amelia-earharts-scarf-to-be-flown-to-the-space-station.html"><P>"He said, 'If nothing else, some part of Amelia will have finished her around the world trip.' I thought that kind of neat," said Smith. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/553BAE56-C931-435C-B9C2-0A120F52F0DF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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