4 thoughts on “Ed Mitchell Passes: Seven Remain Who Have Stood on the Moon”
I was born in 1954 and the astronauts were the greatest of all heroes. I cried in disbelief when Grissom, White, and Chaffee were killed and cried with happiness when we first landed on the moon. von Braun was planning a Mars mission but realpolitik ended such ambitions. I practically drooled over the articles in Popular Science and Popular Mechanics illustrating the cool space stations, moon bases, and rocket ships. Social change, Vietnam; so close and yet so far.
What's sad to me (b 1949; I remember my older brother folding his Chicago Tribunes to deliver them the morning we learned about Sputnik) is that we did this wonderful thing and then walked away from it.
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I was born in 1954 and the astronauts were the greatest of all heroes. I cried in disbelief when Grissom, White, and Chaffee were killed and cried with happiness when we first landed on the moon. von Braun was planning a Mars mission but realpolitik ended such ambitions. I practically drooled over the articles in Popular Science and Popular Mechanics illustrating the cool space stations, moon bases, and rocket ships. Social change, Vietnam; so close and yet so far.
What's sad to me (b 1949; I remember my older brother folding his Chicago Tribunes to deliver them the morning we learned about Sputnik) is that we did this wonderful thing and then walked away from it.
RIP.
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