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Dec 8, 2016
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Gustav
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Died at 95. Combat and test pilot, astronaut, and senator is a heck of a life
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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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