Astronauts Who have Died

mickmackey1

Alan Bean has not died it seems...

https://www.dead-people.com/Alan-Bean

Itssoeasy

RIP Alan bean. NASA confirmed in 30 minutes ago. That's another of the men to have walked on the moon gone.

Capt'n Midnight

Alan Bean, moonwalker turned artist, dies at 86

Beeker

Only 4 moon walkers left, Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot of Apollo 11, Dave Scott, commander of Apollo 15, Charlie Duke, lunar module pilot for Apollo 16, and geologist and former U.S. Sen. Harrison Schmitt, lunar module pilot for Apollo 17.

Beeker

Astronaut Don Peterson has died. He flew as a mission specialist on Challengers first flight STS-6 in April 1983.




https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Donald_Peterson-NASA-file-photo.jpg

Itssoeasy

Apollo 15 CMP Al Worden has died at the age of 88.

Itssoeasy

Michael Collins CMP of the historic Apollo 11 mission has died at the age of 90 according to his family. Well that’s **** news but 90 is a good innings as they say.

Heckler

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Michael Collins CMP of the historic Apollo 11 mission has died at the age of 90 according to his family. Well that’s **** news but 90 is a good innings as they say.

Good innings true and what a legacy. RIP.

"Out there was this little pea about the size of your thumbnail at arm's length: blue, white, very shiny, you get the blue of the oceans, white of the clouds, streaks of rust we call continents, such a beautiful gorgeous tiny thing, nestled into this black velvet of the rest of the universe."

Itssoeasy

Heckler wrote: »

Good innings true and what a legacy. RIP.

Yep. And he seemed like such a nice guy despite what he’d done as part of the Apollo 11. He came across as very unassuming. The humans who have orbited the moon is getting smaller and given some of the ages of the ones still alive, it’s likely soon enough there may not be any alive.

Heckler

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Yep. And he seemed like such a nice guy despite what he’d done as part of the Apollo 11. He came across as very unassuming. The humans who have orbited the moon is getting smaller and given some of the ages of the ones still alive, it’s likely soon enough there may not be any alive.

Some life he had. Generations pass to be replaced by others doing extraordinary things in space. At 90 and ailing I wouldn't be too sad but yes its a passing to note for certain. Special men and women willing to do this kind of thing.

I'm not up to speed on whether anyone is planning a return trip to the moon but if they are and he is cremated I could think of no better final resting place.

Itssoeasy

Heckler wrote: »

Some life he had. Generations pass to be replaced by others doing extraordinary things in space. At 90 and ailing I wouldn't be too sad but yes its a passing to note for certain. Special men and women willing to do this kind of thing.

I'm not up to speed on whether anyone is planning a return trip to the moon but if they are and he is cremated I could think of no better final resting place.

There are plans to go back there but when gene cernan stepped off the surface of the moon in 1972 I doubt he even expected to be nearly fifty years since they were last there.

Heckler

Itssoeasy wrote: »

There are plans to go back there but when gene cernan stepped off the surface of the moon in 1972 I doubt he even expected to be nearly fifty years since they were last there.

Looking ever outwards I guess.

Roger_007

Itssoeasy wrote: »

There are plans to go back there but when gene cernan stepped off the surface of the moon in 1972 I doubt he even expected to be nearly fifty years since they were last there.

It’s extraordinary that the futherest any human has been from the earth in the last 50 years is a couple of hundred kilometres.
There was spectacular progress in the first ten years of manned space flights, from the first flight to landing on the moon.
I think the main reason for the lack of manned moon flights since then is that there is simply no economic value in it. Historically, voyages of discovery have been motivated principally by the prospect of economic gain or, as was the case with moon landings of 50 years ago, to satisfy a need to prove ideological superiority. There has been simply no motivation to repeat the exercise.

Heckler

Roger_007 wrote: »

It’s extraordinary that the futherest any human has been from the earth in the last 50 years is a couple of hundred kilometres.
There was spectacular progress in the first ten years of manned space flights, from the first flight to landing on the moon.
I think the main reason for the lack of manned moon flights since then is that there is simply no economic value in it. Historically, voyages of discovery have been motivated principally by the prospect of economic gain or, as was the case with moon landings of 50 years ago, to satisfy a need to prove ideological superiority. There has been simply no motivation to repeat the exercise.

I know next to nothing about any space race, am just fascinated with space and the universe. Would Mars not be the next Moon in terms of dick wagging between China, USA and Russia ?

AMKC

He flew on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. He piloted the command module so he never walked on the moon.
He was 90.

RIP Micheal Collins

josip

Heckler wrote: »

I know next to nothing about any space race, am just fascinated with space and the universe. Would Mars not be the next Moon in terms of dick wagging between China, USA and Russia ?

Yes, but Mars would be an order of magnitude more difficult than reaching the moon, just as getting to the moon (and back) was an order of magnitude more difficult than getting into orbit.

Hoof Hearted2

AMKC wrote: »

He flew on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. He piloted the command module so he never walked on the moon.
He was 90.

RIP Micheal Collins

FYP
He selflessly piloted the command module so others could walk on the moon.

So long Michael and thanks for all the fish.

Itssoeasy

it was announced yesterday that Ken Mattingly has died. He was meant to be part of the Apollo 13 crew but was replaced because of exposure to measles. He did fly as CM of Apollo 16 and flew on the space shuttle, and I think only he and John young did that.

Itssoeasy

Another sad bit of news.

frank Borman commander of Apollo 8 the first mission to orbit the moon has died at the age of 95. RIP. There were 24 humans who orbited the moon and that number is dwindling fast.

Itssoeasy

Tom Stafford who was commander of Apollo 10 and of the Apollo Soyuz mission has died at the age of 93.

Itssoeasy

Bill Anders who flew on Apollo 8 and took one of, if not the most famous pictures of earth on Christmas Eve 1968 has died at 90.

Hotblack Desiato

Crashed his light aircraft sadly, but at 90 he was still doing the thing he loved to do all his life.

Itssoeasy

Jim Lovell has died at the age of 97. He flew on Gemini 7 and Gemini 12, Apollo 8 and 13.

The movie Apollo 13 introduced me to him and all the others, and it is the reason I love space and why I love the fact we sent people to the moon in the 1960 and 1970s. He was an absolute legend along with so many of that era both in mission control and the crews.

RIP Jim Lovell.

Itssoeasy

https://twitter.com/nasa/status/1953893398995243332?s=61

NASA statement.

Hotblack Desiato

I think Lovell had the most flights of any astronaut who didn't fly on the Shuttle. Went to the Moon twice but never got to land…

Itssoeasy

So with the death of Jim Lovell, all the crew of Apollo 8 have died.

ItHurtsWhenIP

I just so happened to have watched "First to the Moon", about Apollo 8, last night and immediately after saw the news of the passing of Jim Lovell. May he rest in peace.