John Glenn has died
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John Glenn has died
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#2I'm saddened to hear this, but it's also not exactly out of the blue given his age.
Godspeed, Sen. (Col.) Glenn. It's an honor to work at your namesake NASA facility.
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#3Godspeed, John Glenn....
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#4He was great in one episode of Frasier.
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#5"As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder." - John Glenn.
RIP sir.
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#6I'm saddened to hear this, but it's also not exactly out of the blue given his age. Godspeed, Sen. (Col.) Glenn. It's an honor to work at your namesake NASA facility.
As a Cleveland-native, I will never forget John Glenn and how his legacy brought honor to the area.
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#7RIP.
I have to wonder, these first missions, did the astronauts have any assurance they would make it back to earth? What was it like to say goodbye to family, not knowing if you would return or not.
Am I way off here? Was this mission uncertain or did NASA have reasonable assurances?
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#8RIP. I have to wonder, these first missions, did the astronauts have any assurance they would make it back to earth? What was it like to say goodbye to family, not knowing if you would return or not. Am I way off here? Was this mission uncertain or did NASA have reasonable assurances?
They were all test pilots, they knew what the chances were.
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#9RIP. I have to wonder, these first missions, did the astronauts have any assurance they would make it back to earth? What was it like to say goodbye to family, not knowing if you would return or not. Am I way off here? Was this mission uncertain or did NASA have reasonable assurances?
They all knew the risks - they were very thoroughly trained in both the science, and the engineering that went into their spacecraft - as well as their many deadly failure modes.
If that didn't drive the point home, the occasional Soviet space disaster certainly would have.
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#10When he went up again in '98, it was another big justification to talk about it in schools. I wasn't alive for Challenger, but this (I was still in elementary school) was another one of those moments I really remember getting me excited about STEM.