Scott Carpenter, Mercury Astronaut, passes at 88

"Just wear your damn mask..." (jimal) 10/10/2013 at 16:11 • Filed to: Spacelopnik

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/us/…

Leaving John Glenn as the only surviving Mercury astronaut.

Casper > Just wear your damn mask... 10/10/2013 at 16:14

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Seeing these guys die at a ripe old age brings a smirk to my face. Just think about how often they were told "if you keep doing ——- you're going to die young". Not only did they do it, they went to freaking space (in a metal tube controlled by a calculator no less), came back, and probably out lived the person who doubted them.

Hats off to them.

Grindintosecond > Just wear your damn mask... 10/10/2013 at 16:16

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My dad has a collection of astronaut autographs, the orig. 7 and apollo. Said that then, they were complete heroes in everyones mind and today we don't have anything special like that. Perhaps when people try to go to the moon again or even Mars we will have heroes again. I saw a TED talk with Burt Rutan about the big leaps in awesome programs becuase of the kids growing up seeing these heroes and scientists do amazing things. The space race....engineered by kids that saw amazing planes spring up in WW2. the WW2 engineers seeing the WW1 engineering...the space shuttle engineered by the kids that watched the mercury engineering......Elon Musk....what did he watch? space shuttle stuff....

Lets all turn the lights out and the shades down so the film strip can run and the whole class can learn about this man.

Just wear your damn mask... > Grindintosecond 10/10/2013 at 16:21

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Film strip? This is one of these movie pictures.

Grindintosecond > Just wear your damn mask... 10/10/2013 at 16:28

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We kind of used the meaning interchangeably in grade school. Sorry...LET'S make the room dark so the whole class can see the movie projector .....movie