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Post by bromptonaut on Dec 8, 2016 21:56:43 GMT
First American to orbit earth, John Glenn, has died at age 95: www.theguardian.com/science/2016/dec/08/john-glenn-obituaryOne of my earliest memories is of being with my Maternal grandmother with rocket launches being shown over and over on telly. Event closely followed by my sister's arrival on the scene. She was born 01/03/62 so I guess it was Glenn's mission and I was about 2.
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Post by Hofmeister on Dec 8, 2016 22:12:59 GMT
First American to orbit earth, John Glenn, has died at age 95: www.theguardian.com/science/2016/dec/08/john-glenn-obituaryOne of my earliest memories is of being with my Maternal grandmother with rocket launches being shown over and over on telly. Event closely followed by my sister's arrival on the scene. She was born 01/03/62 so I guess it was Glenn's mission and I was about 2. If you have been to Cape Canaveral/Kennedy/Canaveral and the space centre and seen the capsules they went up in, you realise how cutting edge yet crude it all was. Real pioneers these guys.
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Post by bromptonaut on Dec 8, 2016 22:31:50 GMT
There's an Apollo capsule in the science museum and some stuff in National Space Museum in Leicester too. Same crude but cutting edge impression.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2016 10:03:24 GMT
Frankly very scary. It is amazing that so few lost their lives whilst actually on a mission.
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