President Ronald Reagan chats with NASA astronauts Henry Hartsfield and Thomas Mattingly on the runway as first lady Nancy Reagan scans the nose of space shuttle Columbia following its Independence Day landing at Edwards Air Force Base on July 4, 1982

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    1. SomethingBlue15 on

      I wonder if that’s the same astronaut Mattingly who was supposed to be on the Apollo 13 mission, but got bumped because he had been exposed to the measles?

    2. Nancy finding a challenge that afternoon. “I’ve been waiting all my life for this!” – The Throat Goat

    3. On the tarmac that morning it was reported that President Reagan; confused as to what was going on; tried ordering a three piece meal with mashed potatoes from NASA Astronaut James Burboun. /s

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