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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 8047152, member: 100459&quot;]Each and every one of the entries are very special to me. I was in the U.S. Army during the Space Race from 1968 - 1970.&nbsp; Even though I did not have to go to combat, I saw the many shows on each evening so I could enjoy what our astronaut went through to get off the ground, go around the Earth many times and then go to the Moon.&nbsp; I wanted to be a part of the NASA program, but found that I did not have the qualifications they were looking for.&nbsp; They sought men and women that had a great deal of training and education.&nbsp; I was not the brightest bulb in the lamp (so to speak)&nbsp; It seemed that during my military career, I would have to play army when the great steps of space exploration occurred. I watched on the TV the progress was going through.&nbsp; I knew I would have to become educated in the sciences and mathmatics and to excel in them for them to look at you.&nbsp; I zigged when I should have sagged when I got my education.&nbsp; I was great in Math.&nbsp; I was 5th in my class in college of about 500 graduates in accounting and business.&nbsp; However, others were numbered in the top 3 of their class.&nbsp; After I finished my first 2 years of college and was beginning my junior year at a major university, I took the Air Force aptitude exam and I was told that I was in the top 3%.&nbsp; They told me that I would need to have a flight physical to get into the Air Force ROTC program and if I passed my physical, I would have to go to Officer Training Program at a base in Texas.</p><p>I was really doing well in everything and then something happened...the war in Vietnam was over and the Air Force was not recruiting new pilot candidates and that many of the current pilots were being a reduction in force.&nbsp; I was told that they would still like me to come into the Air Force, but not as a pilot.&nbsp; All of the defeated the purpose I took during that summer.&nbsp; Also, I was told that I would have to stay in the Air Force for 6 years or more working in an accounting program.</p><p>That STANK!&nbsp; </p><p>However, I was still interested in the Space Program, no longer as a pilot, but working in their production field...whatever that was.&nbsp; I told them No Thanks.</p><p>However, 2019 was a great year for Space coins.&nbsp; I think I bought every Space coins that the Mint produced that year.&nbsp; The only foreign country space coin was for Canada.&nbsp; I&#039;m still looking for other space coins, so, if anyone know where there are any space coins, Please let me know.&nbsp; I sure would appreciate it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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