I’m seeing on my Twitter timeline that he has died. If so, John Glenn is the only Mercury 7 astronaut left.
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I’m seeing on my Twitter timeline that he has died. If so, John Glenn is the only Mercury 7 astronaut left.
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Since most of the Mercury astronauts were of the WWII or Korean war generation, it isn’t too surprising that most of them are gone now. It’s kind of striking to find out how many of the Apollo astronauts from the moon missions are dead.
Apollo 11: Armstrong
Apollo 12: Conrad
Apollo 13: Swigert
Apollo 14: Shepard, Roosa
Apollo 15: Irwin
Apollo 17: Evans
Phil Plait has a nice tribute up:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy.html
The hell with Phil Plait. He’s an ass.
I’ll wait for something by a writer I respect.
Eric
Your comment says more about you than it does about anyone else.
While Plait can in fact be an ass, the post linked to is not an example of him being one. It is a nice tribute to one of the true heroes or culture has produced.