Pete Conrad, the third man on the moon, has died in a motorcycle accident. Rest in peace, Pete.
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
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Posted by The First One (Member # 35) on :
For a minute there I was thinking "only 69?!" but then i saw how. What a way to go. . . and I always remember the bit in Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff where he was rejected from Mercury selection as "not suitable for long-duration flights" and later becomes a lunar astronaut and commander of Skylab 1. Rest in Peace. 8(
Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :
Wow, 69 and still riding a Harley, eh? Yet another American hero gone.
*observes moment of silence*
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Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :
Hero? Pioneer yes, but hero?
BTW anyone else think motorcycles are dangerous?
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
*Thwacks RW with a Saturn V.*
ANYBODY who dares to volunteer to have themselves strap ped to a giant firework, ride an incredible distance through vacuum, and land on an unexplored world, and return, and DOES it, is a hero.
We have few enough.
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Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :
It wasn't that risky. Pff.
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
Er, we lost three people in Apollo 1. Almost 3 more in Apollo 13. Almost lost Apollo 11, because the landing site was bad. Could have lost the 1st spacewalker. Could have lost Apollo 8. Lost 7 more on Challenger. The Russians lost who knows how many, because they lied about it. 3 in a Soyuz capsule, for sure. Almost lost Mir. It's a lot more hazardous than is generally known. Believe me, there've been close calls you never heard about.
------------------ "When we turn our back on our principles, we stop being human." -- Janeway, "Equinox"