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Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died

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Re: Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died

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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.

what's your point?

Re: Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died

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I 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.

> next person walk on the moon. 2025-2026 if everything goes to plan at NASA The Chinese also announced that they will be attempting to build a lunar base with Russia, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Venezuela, South Africa, UAE, and Belarus by 2035. I'm curious what JAXA, ESA, and ISRO are going to try with regards to human space flight. I know JAXA and ISRO work very closely with each other, but seem to be much more probe an…

Makes sense; if you want to build a lunar base, you gotta have Venezuela and Azerbaijan on your team, otherwise it's basically futile.

Re: Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died

#36

I 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.

> next person walk on the moon. 2025-2026 if everything goes to plan at NASA The Chinese also announced that they will be attempting to build a lunar base with Russia, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Venezuela, South Africa, UAE, and Belarus by 2035. I'm curious what JAXA, ESA, and ISRO are going to try with regards to human space flight. I know JAXA and ISRO work very closely with each other, but seem to be much more probe an…

JAXA and ESA (among others) are part of the Artemis program's human spaceflight component.

Re: Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died

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Imagine your obituary being hidden behind a paywall.

Why would I expect someone to host/write it for free?

I’m somewhat surprised a WikiObituary doesn’t exist yet, with them collectively written and crowdsourced prior to death and licensed permissively. Wikipedia + ChatGPT to do the heavy lifting perhaps for the rough cut, and then clean it up.

Might try to find some time to spike a GPT or something and see what happens.

Re: Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died

#38
post #18

During 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."

Damn, what a badass comment and you know he meant it.

Re: Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died

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> next person walk on the moon. 2025-2026 if everything goes to plan at NASA The Chinese also announced that they will be attempting to build a lunar base with Russia, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Venezuela, South Africa, UAE, and Belarus by 2035. I'm curious what JAXA, ESA, and ISRO are going to try with regards to human space flight. I know JAXA and ISRO work very closely with each other, but seem to be much more probe an…

Makes sense; if you want to build a lunar base, you gotta have Venezuela and Azerbaijan on your team, otherwise it's basically futile.

In the United States the space race led to a ton of STEM education, and secondary technology use cases. It would amazing to get similar benefits in those countries.
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