RIP.
He did a great service to the nation in Apollo 7, but less so in his opposition to commercial spaceflight.
[Update a while later]
Speaking of commercial spaceflight, John Krauss has some great photos of the Polaris Dawn crew at JSC.
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It took him a few years, but he did come around to supporting Moon Day at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas (the largest annual space event in Texas). He does leave a legacy in the museum itself, which he helped found and which houses his Moon rock.
Carpe Lunam!
Nice how the author treats him as one o’ them deplorable climate deniers. “overwhelming scientific belief” argh.
“Forget it, Jake. It’s NPR
Chinatown.”The GroupThink must be reinforced at all times.
…and with one magic word, a news piece transforms into an opinion article.
An obituary no less. But that’s how they do things.
It tells you what kind of ‘people’ you are dealing with.
At least they linked to his essay.
That was a remarkably good essay, well worth the read.
It brings back memories of those days of the “Wally, Walt, and Donn Show”, the first live television broadcasts from American astronauts in space (and them holding up the famous sign reading “Keep those cards and letters coming in, folks.”)
What an innocent time…