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Astronaut Gordon 'Gordo' Cooper, 1927-2004
Grant writes "Leroy Gordon 'Gordo' Cooper, one of America's first seven astronauts, died today in his home at the age of 77. A number of space related sites are carrying the news." Grant points to coverage at SpaceRef.com, Space.com, Nasa Watch, and CNN, writing "His accomplishments will continue to inspire and he will be missed."
The saddest fact is that nobody gives a shit. I mean, the glory and fantasy that is space exploration doesn't matter to anyone anymore. You mention NASA and people just start to carry off on a rant about how NASA is so expensive and they want that money being put torward caring for them via social security and medicaid instead. Everyone is so selfish and nearsighted that space doesn't excite them half as much as a free xanax prescription or a coupon for a free burger at mcdonalds.
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Space, NASA and exploration are just pathetic jokes these days. It's so fucking depressing. I wish I grew up 20 years earlier so I could have thrived in the culture of "can-do" and "must-do" and far-out ideas of the universe, beyond our own little planet.
Only an american would think of going to the abovementionned websites for news.
Listen up here jerkwad. Not everyone can be an astronaut. Plenty of fighter jocks, however, have gone on to get advanced degrees in engineering, aerospace, physics, and the like. So before you go singing the praises of a bunch of slide-rule thumbing pencil-neck geeks who never chanced to hang their balls out over the line and risk having them snapped off, remember that the Astronaut corps truly does represent the best of the best. So it wasn't the guys with the calculators (which, by the way, took up entire floors in the days of Apollo) who beat Russia. It was everyone who worked hard for a common goal.