Part 75 End of the decade
We have Problems mister President !
Al Gore second term was overshadow by scandal provoked by Vice President Bill Clinton.
Despite married, he had relationship with 22 year old White House employee Monica Lewinsky,
Confronted by journalist Clinton lied and attempted to covered up his relationship with her.
Gore drop Clinton on first sign of trouble
In end Clinton was impeached with 221-212 vote becoming the First vice President in US history remove from Office by Capitol Hill.
President Al Gore took Minority Leader Dick Gephardt as new Vice President a social conservative and anti-abortion.
Hillary Clinton divorce her husband and enter As Hillary Rodham into US Politic for Democrats.
During that time the son of President Bush, the second man on Mars, George W. Bush enter politic in Texas.
He was elected to Governor of Texas in 1995, he successful issued reforms in State like criminal Justice system or better education in Texas.
Also supported private space industry and NASA in Texas, The Republicans in Capitol Hill consider him as perfect candidate for next president election in 2000.
The return of Heros
In 1995 NASA got proposal of Former Astronaut for a special Mission in Space,
His argumentation was simple: the Astronaut Lost of bones, muscles mass and blood plasma in space, are similar to ageing.
NASA should send older person to Space to study this, and that person should be him.
his name John Glenn - the First American in Orbit, Senator and Former President !
Capitol Hill went ballistic, that former President wanted to return to Space.
It took until 1996 with compromise, a group of old astronauts were selected for this:
John Glenn - age 77 - Mercury
Buzz Aldwin - age 68 - Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Shuttle
Pete Conrad - age 68 - Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Shuttle
James Lovell - age 70 -Gemini, Apollo.
There were more contender, but do medical issue and health status weren’t selected, other like Neil Armstrong refused.
Another issue was that Secret Service wanted two men for protection of former President Glenn.
Despite NASA considering this unnecessary, two agent were trained as Astronauts, disguise as mission specialist.
1997 after a year of training the six were on board of new generation Space shuttle Daedalus to Olympus space station.
They stay 90 day in space, giving valuable scientific data, with new insight in Ageing and on long expose to microgravity
The Media took this wrongly with „Astronauts died faster in space“ headlines…
Then happen incident on Lunar surface as Soviet Zarya declare emergency and landed at Moonbase Alpha.
Rest of The World
The 1998 election in East Germany confirmed with 94,4%, Angela Merkel as New General Secretary of Socialist Unity Party.
While in West Germany Election made socialist Gerhard Schröder chancellor, thanks of series of scandals in Christians Democratic Party.
The contrast between both could be harscher: Merkel grown up with christians values, while Schröder is Manager with Social darwinist views.
For the German Confederation came turbulent times
The US Presidential Election ended in 2000 in surprise
The Power Duo Dick Gephardt and Hillary Rodham were defeated by George W. Bush and Newt Gingrich became president and vice !
Former Astronaut, second man on Mars and Governor of Texas, now the Second astronaut in White House !
So celebrated mankind end of Millennium in 1999, many were asking what bring the 21th century ?
Special with development around Mars and Venus… |
