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BillyVance

RIP John Glenn, last of the original seven astronauts

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Damn;
It was just yesterday I saw a news item that he was terribly ill, but I didn't expect him to go this quickly.
[:/]

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

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I remember when it first came out. I saw it in the theater. Almost 3 hrs. I didn't want it to end. If they had continued with Gemini and Apollo I would have sat there as long as it took.
Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

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http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/12/john-glenn/john-glenn.html#
My dad met him and jfk a couple times. Look up Joe Walker, a NASA test pilot also. Set records in the X-15. 1 Used to come over dor dinner a lot. RIP JOHN AND JOE.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Albert_Walker
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

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It's interesting. After he flew on his Mercury mission, NASA wouldn't let him fly again because an accident resulting in his death would be bad publicity. But then he got to fly on the shuttle at age 80 or so, because it was good publicity. :D

Just glad he wasn't on the Challenger's or Discovery's final flights. :S

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

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Actually, Glenn did fly on the Discovery, which is now in the Smithsonian. You're thinking of the Columbia as the one that broke up on re-entry.
I had a hand working at General Dynamics, Convair Division, as a Skin & Structures Mechanic in building the Discovery's cargo hold.
I was in the 1st grade when Glenn made his first flight of 3 orbits in 1962. My mom saved my essay that I wrote about what a brave hero John Glenn was. It was written, or rather printed, in pencil on that school paper with the dotted lines in the middle of each line. To this I added my best drawing of a rocket blasting off. Even back then I remember that his mission was scrubbed twice before he finally got off the ground and that there were problems with his re-entry that had the grownups worried (they thought his heat shield had come loose and told him not to jettison his retro rockets after firing).

He was a man who lived long and prospered.

Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

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You're right on the Columbia being the one that broke up on re-entry. My bad. I didn't double check the facts. And I should know this stuff, being from Rocket City, USA (Huntsville, AL).
"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

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