Re: OT Wally Schirra

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On Thu, 3 May 2007 22:02:02 -0500, "n5hsr" <n5hsr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Sorry to hear of his passing. One of the original seven.

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Didn't they just shoot Gordo Cooper's remains into space?

Now there's only 2. Glenn and Carpenter. Neither one got to fly
Gemini or
Apollo, though they did let Glenn fly on the Shuttle.

Wally flew all 3. Gus Grissom was going to get to fly all three, but
he
perished in that horrid Apollo 1 fire I didn't find out about until a
couple
years later.

I was working at the NASA Tracking Station Corpus Christi TX when the
fire occurred. Being young at the time it really hit me hard.

btw we were NOT ready to track Apollo 1. Busy times. Fun times. Sad
times.


So if the "Apollo 1" mission had gone off as scheduled on Feb 21, 1967,
a lot of othe pieces wouldn't have worked either?

I guess it could have been worse. They could have been in space when
the fire happened.

How would that have been worse?

Jeff

Charles of Schaumburg.



We probably wouldn't have got the bodies back, since we couldn't have
recovered the spacecraft. Remember a lot of the wiring burned up. I
don't know if they could have hit the button on the control panel fast
enough to stop the fire, but if they weren't in their pressure suits,
they would have died, too.

There would probably be Apollo 1 orbiting for years until its orbit
decayed and it plunged back into the atmosphere and burned up on reentry.
(No control means it doesn't get to use that big heat shield to protect
it, either.)

Charles of Schaumburg.

In other words, they would have been just as dead.

Jeff

But we would have an orbiting reminder every day for YEARS of the failure.
At least with it on the ground, we could bury the dead, fix the problem and
get on with it, which is what we needed to do. That's also what we need to
do in Iraq and Iran. Bury the dead, FIX the problem and get on with it. A
Vietnam-style cowering home isn't going to FIX the problem. As long as we
don't FIX the problem, we're going to have to deal with those Sand Pounders.
I like Scott's idea best. America needs a new glass factory.

Charles of Schaumburg


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