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NASA Astronaut Dick Gordon, Pilot of Gemini and Apollo 12, Dies At 88 (astronautscholarship.org)
sconeu writes: Dick Gordon, pilot of Gemini 11 and command module pilot of Apollo 12, has died at the age of 88. Gordon was also slated to command the cancelled Apollo 18 mission. "Dick Gordon is an American hero, and a true renaissance man by any measure. He was an American naval officer and aviator, chemist, test pilot, NASA astronaut, professional football executive, oil and gas executive and generous contributor to worthy causes," said Curt Brown, board chairman of the Orlando-based Astronaut Scholarship Foundation and an astronaut and veteran of six space flights. "He was in a category all his own." The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation has a touching write-up that details Gordon's childhood and career successes. You can read the full article here.
https://xkcd.com/893/
Sadly, he's right. That number will likely come down to zero within our lifetime.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
They should already find a solution for this. Valuable people keep dying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NBkIUFWPlg
Apollo 12 was the launch hit by lightning, and almost aborted. Very professional crew and ground control were able to handle the problem. Good thing there was an SCE to AUX switch. Sorry to hear that one of them has gone.
One has to commend the incredible achievements these first astronauts made during that time. Very much a drive to go back to the space we as human's seem driven to go to. Sadly today our drive to extend what people like Gordon achieved seems to be only a pipe dream anymore. Our ability to extend beyond the moon isn't anymore a reality with human's then it was back then. We have become content to circle around Earth and lay plans to go back to the moon. Maybe because we still use rockets to get us into space.
Owner of a lonely heart. Retire and die soon. Or that.
Another of the heroes of my youth in the 60's is gone. All of the Mercury 7 are gone, now a lot of the Gemini & Apollo astronauts are passing away. What's left? "Sports" players, actors that constantly disrespect our nation.
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Space exploration with robots is kind of like fucking a Sexdoll, I expect.
The results are the same, but the experience leaves something to be desired.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Fakin' space is tough work. Lots of people are on to them. Too bad for them that they can't fake the eclipses, and they can't fake the Flat Earth.
Space is fake. The Earth is flat. You can stop worrying about 'other planets.'
"a naval officer and aviator, chemist, test pilot, NASA astronaut"
A great man? And all he made was Captain?
Oh yeah? And where do Hitler and the Reptiloids live, then, if not inside the hollow earth?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
On the moon. You should read your Heinlein again.
...or watch Iron Sky. :-)
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
Loved that movie. A rare Finnish-German-Australian co-production. I knew someone in it, so I watched, and waited. Three seconds he was on-screen for. Acting's a tough gig.
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
It always amazed me that people could walk past him in public, or sit in a business meeting with him, and (assuming they did not know him) they would never guess that he had orbited the moon.
Apollo 12 was my favorite crew. Pete died way before his time, now Dick is gone, and only Al remains.
Oh please, I'm trying to get a serious discussion and you come with Sci-Fi writers.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.