PS. My grandma used to say God watches over drunks and little children. In the space race in 1967, we were still little children. God was giving us a wake-up call to what we were doing so He made sure it happened on the ground before we got stuck out there, so we could grow up a bit, instead of being mentally scarred forever and stopped from going forward.
Charles of Schaumburg
If it were orbiting, we could have rendezoued with it and brought it home. It would have difficult, but we could have done it.
After the Columbia and Challenger diasters, we fixed some of the problems. Most of the problems were system problems with the way things were done rather problems with individuals.
That is often the case with complicated things, like the subway in NYC, where three workers were seriously injured in the last two weeks. One survived two accidents that occurred because safety rules were not followed.
Jeff
Charles of Schaumburg
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What do you mean were?
We still are as far as space is concerned. And humans have been on this planet for about 0.1% of its history.
God had nothing to do with it. If you do enough stupid stuff, something is going to go wrong.
Of course, maybe God told you this personally.
There were a whole lot of stupid stuff there, like using 100% oxygen and having a capsule that takes several minutes to open up.
Jeff
I reported for duty just in time for Gemini 7/6. What a complicated mission to break in on....LOL.
At Corpus Christi we did not have the luxury of watching the launch on TV, cause we were involved with the pass of the 7 vehicle while 6 was launched.
Exciting, fun times.
Many LONG hours ....but ohhhhh those splash down parties. I still can remember the headaches...LOL
headaches or hangovers? I was in third grade, I didn't drink back then. But at least I was off Geritol.
Charles of Schaumburg OOF.
Both.....
I was in NYC today and went down near to the WTC area. Some American still care about what happened to our country. I saw many walking away with tears running down their faces. Thank goodness we have a President that still remembers, as well, and he will not cut and run from our fight with the radical Islamic terrorists that want to kill Americans. If JFK saw what his and my former party, is doing to divide our county today for political reasons he too would have tears running down his face, how sad
mike
While Schirra said the space shuttle was junk, I don't know his opinions of the other spacecrafts. But here's an article from 1980 (not by Schirra) that correctly predicted the space shuttle would be a white elephant:
The International Space Station has also turned out to be a boondogle and may have cost as much as a manned mission to and from Mars. Plus it won't be useable for another 3-5 years because, with a crew limit of just two (imposed by the Soyuz's capacity and the unreliability of the shuttle), the crew spends virtually all its time performing maintenance operations. :(
Spare us the "some Americans still care" line. Did you do your civic duty and at least point out that, thank goodness, we got back at Saddam? My guess is not.
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