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We lost a pioneer today - Wally Shirra age 84
In article ,
Ron Natalie wrote: kontiki wrote: A real American Hero. Unfortunately Rosie O'Donnel will probably get more press coverage. Rosie O'Donnel died? No -- she only looks like she did! |
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We lost a pioneer today - Wally Shirra age 84
"Orval Fairbairn" wrote in message news In article , Ron Natalie wrote: kontiki wrote: A real American Hero. Unfortunately Rosie O'Donnel will probably get more press coverage. Rosie O'Donnel died? No -- she only looks like she did! I think it's just her brain that died. She seems to be for all intent and purposes, brain dead. DH |
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We lost a pioneer today - Wally Shirra age 84
"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message ... "Orval Fairbairn" wrote in message news In article , Ron Natalie wrote: kontiki wrote: A real American Hero. Unfortunately Rosie O'Donnel will probably get more press coverage. Rosie O'Donnel died? No -- she only looks like she did! She smells as though she did. I think it's just her brain that died. She seems to be for all intent and purposes, brain dead. Zombie. |
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We lost a pioneer today - Wally Shirra age 84
On 2007-05-03 10:36:03 -0700, "ManhattanMan" said:
I was priviledged to have been aboard the USS Kearsarge in Oct, 1962 to witness the first astronaut to re-enter earths atmosphere in full view of the recovery force. I took his picture climbing out of the 'Sigma 7' Mercury capsule, from the catwalk overlooking #3 elevator, and it, along with the two page spread from Look Magazine, has been on my office wall for the last 45 years. http://www.members.cox.net/drpics/shirra_oct62.jpg Six months later we picked up Gordon Cooper, and it was a carbon copy of Shirra's re-entry. About four years later I was working for Aeronautical Radio, Inc. (ARINC) in Kansas City, and discovered the station managers wife went to high school with Wally, back in the Seattle area I believe. It's a small world.. RIP Wally Shirra, and thanks for everything..... Don Sad thing is, all of the Apollo program astronauts will probably be dead before we ever return to the moon. -- Waddling Eagle World Famous Flight Instructor |
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We lost a pioneer today - Wally Shirra age 84
In article 200705061913088930-christophercampbell@hotmailcom,
C J Campbell wrote: Sad thing is, all of the Apollo program astronauts will probably be dead before we ever return to the moon. It would be really sad if we never go back at all. -- Bob Noel (goodness, please trim replies!!!) |
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We lost a pioneer today - Wally Shirra age 84
Ummm yup, Bob - though the Prez has ordered us to do so, and NASA is
running about waving fistfuls of CASH and yodeling like Tarzan, the big aerospace companies are drooling like rabid dogs, and space fans are heartened Warp 8 Mr. Sulu! The crucial issue is, will this survive the changing of the guard in 2008 when the Democrats have the White House and a majority in at least one house of Congress and probably two... Their genetic programming to do whatever it takes to pay people not to work, and punish those who do, will cause any other big spending program such as the Moon to be DOA... my lifetime of watching scumbag politicians create entitlement programs tells me the Moon/Mars will die whimpering The other issue is that Wally was dead set against going back to the moon see the video of his remarks on NASA TV because it sucks resources from the real need to go to MARS... I feel he is dead right on this issue... What NASA needs to spend money on over the next decade is in placing several hundred tons of machinery and supplies both on the surface and in orbit of Mars, to await the arrival of the people who will spend 3 to 5 years mining out caverns, setting up solar panel farms, building electrolysis stills to separate oxygen from sub surface ice, and pressurizing the whole complex as a permanent base... For this project the ISS is your forward work camp... You send up multiple loads to the ISS... There the loads are assembled into trains and boosted off to orbit Mars... Sadly, what we should do versus what we will do so some scumbag politicians can get re-elected, is completely at odds... denny It would be really sad if we never go back at all. Bob Noel (goodness, please trim replies!!!) |
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We lost a pioneer today - Wally Shirra age 84
For this project the ISS is your forward work camp... You send up
multiple loads to the ISS... There the loads are assembled into trains and boosted off to orbit Mars... I agree with the overall tenor of your post, Denny. However, I think you may be mistaken when it comes to the role of the space station. I may be crazy, but I think I remember reading that the ISS, although originally intended to serve in the role you describe for it, was actually put into an orbit that makes it less than suitable for boosting anything onto mars or the moon. Unless I'm sadly mistaken, this was one of the things left on the cutting room floor, back when the budget debates over construction of the ISS were under way. Perhaps there's a way to change that now? Can the whole ISS be boosted into a higher orbit? -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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We lost a pioneer today - Wally Shirra age 84
More like flailing about like a double-jointed hooker on dollar night.
Jim "Denny" wrote in message ps.com... Ummm ... NASA is running about waving fistfuls of CASH and yodeling like Tarzan |
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We lost a pioneer today - Wally Shirra age 84
I can think of no mechanical reason why the ISS should not be boosted
to a higher orbit... Whether the political will exists is the issue... Another issue is that the Shuttle will not carry big loads to a high orbit... So, cranking out a series of larger APOLLO capsules to haul people back and forth is needed... Of course, instead of simply putting out a commercial bid for tin cans with a heat shield and parachutes that will do the job, NASA will predesign these tin cans so they have to built from unobtanium, with excruciatingly complex control systems, yadda, yadda, ad nauseum... At which point they will begin resembling a Shuttle without wings and we will spend 10 years building 3, at a zillion percent over run in cost... sigh Why they don't come to their senses and give me total authority to run the project, boggles the mind! I can do it... On time and within budget... denny |
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