Ephemeral Isle: Wally Schirra 1923

Thursday, May 03, 2007

Wally Schirra, one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and commander of the Apollo 7 mission has died at the age of 84.

Godspeed, Captain.

jayessell said...: It's too bad all the books about space exploration written before the 1960s are lost.

I remember one distinctly.

"The first astronaut is 17 years old now..."

The authors couldn't know the first American astronauts used to be a Korean War jet pilots.

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In a few hundred years, just as in one of the radio plays on David's MP3 CD, the colony worlds will bear the names of men who had "The Right Stuff".

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Off topic:
The recently discovered class M planet should be named "Claire".; Thursday, 3 May 2007 19:46:00 o'clock PDT