Seems Jim Lovell is now the oldest living Apollo astronaut.
Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died
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#12i remember apollo 8 so well. how brilliant. is anything that good ever going to happen again? often these days i think not.
When Crew1 launched, I watched it and the landing like it was an Apollo mission. The US sent people to space, again, finally. It's sad that we had to get back to just that capability.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Imagine your obituary being hidden behind a paywall.
Why would I expect someone to host/write it for free?
When were obits ever free? The family typically paid to run an obit in the paper. I can't imagine why it would be any different. After that, people had to pay $0.25 to $2.00 for the paper to see them.
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#14i remember apollo 8 so well. how brilliant. is anything that good ever going to happen again? often these days i think not.
Artemis and Starship.
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#15Rocket Men by Robert Kurson tells the Apollo 8 story in a captivating manner. Some of the passages are quite dramatic but it's justified given the litany of firsts accomplished by the mission.
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#16I think there are now only eight men still alive that flew to the moon and only four that walked on it. I hope there'll be some still alive to see the next person walk on the moon.
I'm nowhere near the age of an Apollo astronaut, and I hope I'm alive to see the next person on the moon.
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#17This video of the Apollo 8 launch along with commentary from the astronauts always gives me goosebumps:
Re: Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died
#18During the Apollo 1 investigation, he said something that suck with me when thinking of begrudging users who are willing to look past faults for utility:
"There's no question that it was a coffin, and I'd have flown it gladly."
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would I expect someone to host/write it for free?
When were obits ever free? The family typically paid to run an obit in the paper. I can't imagine why it would be any different. After that, people had to pay $0.25 to $2.00 for the paper to see them.
Newspapers used to cost a lot less than $0.25 and the ones still printed today tend to cost more than $2.
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#20I've been listening with my kid to the excellent BBC podcast "13 Minutes to the Moon"[1]. It does a great job describing both the astronauts' experience (including Frank Borman and Apollo 8) and the scale and speed of efforts on the ground. I highly recommend it.