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 (December 8, 2016 at 7:04 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Yeah, I thought - for some reason - he'd got away before. I reckon anyone who straps his ass to a big bomb in the hopes of helping expand human knowledge qualifies as a hero. And I know damned well that such a man has balls of cast-iron.  (December 9, 2016 at 12:36 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(December 8, 2016 at 7:04 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Yeah, I thought - for some reason - he'd got away before. I just learned that his nickname as a fighter pilot was 'Magnet Ass' due to his freakish ability to attract flak - he once retuned from a sortie with something like 200 holes in his plane. Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
Yeah, I suppose anyone bold enough to attack AAA sites is gonna have that particular issue. They don't seem to appreciate calling-cards, those flak troops.
At 95 you don't mourn a life like his. You salute it.
I don't recall anything special happening at school on manned launch days. This was years before schools had AV carts to wheel around to classrooms, and stopping class to listen to the radio would have been an invitation for my classmates to get bored and get into trouble.
And recall, those early launches rarely went off on schedule, launch holds were endless, and scrubs and try agains all too common. At least on those early sub orbital and orbital flights there weren't too many concerns about launch windows other than having the anticipated splashdown time in daylight, they didn't need to worry about where the moon was and such until years later. And LOL, it was also going to be a few more years till we started seeing footage on the news that had been transmitted from overseas "via satellite", and when such footage was shown, it was a BIG DEAL. Photos could be sent via undersea cables around the world, but not video. That had to wait for satellites. The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
Met the man when he did a Forrestal Lecture at USNA.
What an absolutely amazing person, and for sure, he has balls of straight cast iron.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<--- (December 9, 2016 at 3:06 pm)Minimalist Wrote: At 95 you don't mourn a life like his. You salute it. A fitting epitaph.  (December 9, 2016 at 12:31 pm)Whateverist Wrote:(December 8, 2016 at 7:04 pm)Bella Morte Wrote: I honestly had no idea who he was, but it's sad nonetheless. No? Yes? Maybe? I just didn't know who he was. |
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