Wow. That pretty much overshadows all the musicians and actors whose deaths are

Dec 8, 2016
1:39:48pm

spoxjox All-American

routinely mourned by the popular press. Here's a guy who actually did something transcendent. He will be missed, even if he was a Democrat.

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RIP John Glenn

Magic8Ball

12/8/16 1:31pm

Wow. That pretty much overshadows all the musicians and actors whose deaths are

spoxjox

12/8/16 1:39pm

Sadly we're likely to see more of Astronauts from that generation go

Seasider

12/8/16 1:39pm

Do we even have any current astronauts?

mudpupper

12/8/16 1:45pm

We do. We just don't have a space shuttle for them anymore

Seasider

12/8/16 1:48pm

Thank heavens. The shuttle was an unmitigated disaster for the space program.

spoxjox

12/8/16 1:51pm

How so?

mudpupper

12/8/16 1:55pm

After they invented Tang, there was no place to go but down.

Submariner

12/8/16 2:05pm

It was a bastardized tradeoff that did a little of everything and nothing good.

spoxjox

12/8/16 2:24pm

I agree with most of this, but the Saturn V blueprints are not lost.

Dread Pirate Westley

12/8/16 2:41pm

Good to know. I read recently that NASA reused (taped over) much of the original

spoxjox

12/8/16 4:00pm

I heard about that one as well, but don't recall the details. The video was bad

Dread Pirate Westley

12/8/16 4:07pm

Here's what Wikipedia says about it...

Dread Pirate Westley

12/8/16 4:09pm

If I were Trump, I would put this guy in charge of Nasa, good analysis

kolob32

12/8/16 6:32pm

Among other things, putting the payload alongside the booster where it was

Dread Pirate Westley

12/8/16 2:34pm

He was great in Deep Space Homer

TNT

12/8/16 1:43pm

You're thinking of Buzz Aldrin

Still Questing

12/8/16 2:00pm

D'oh!

TNT

12/8/16 4:21pm

That's sad. He was easily my favorite Beatle.

Zach Morris

12/8/16 1:45pm

Died at 95. Combat and test pilot, astronaut, and senator is a heck of a life

Gustav

12/8/16 2:06pm

Godspeed Johnny Glenn!

Dread Pirate Westley

12/8/16 2:29pm

I will always remember him for "Dreams of the every day housewife". Solid tune"

Backcountry

12/8/16 2:33pm

Classic in an episode of Frasier. Where he narrates a documentary

valcorger

12/8/16 2:59pm

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