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Astronauts Who have Died

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    #32
    mickmackey1
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    Alan Bean has not died it seems...

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


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


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    WEB11163-2009h-678x381.jpg

    Alan Bean, moonwalker turned artist, dies at 86


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    Beeker
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    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.


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


    608px-Donald_Peterson-NASA-file-photo.jpg

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


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    #37
    Itssoeasy
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    Apollo 15 CMP Al Worden has died at the age of 88.


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    Itssoeasy
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    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.


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    Heckler
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    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."


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    Itssoeasy
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    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.


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    Heckler
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    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.


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    #42
    Itssoeasy
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    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.


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    Heckler
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    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.


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    Roger_007
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    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.


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    Heckler
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    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 ?


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    AMKC
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    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

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



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    josip
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    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.


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    Hoof Hearted2
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    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.


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    Itssoeasy
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    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.

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    Itssoeasy
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    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.



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    #51
    Itssoeasy
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    Tom Stafford who was commander of Apollo 10 and of the Apollo Soyuz mission has died at the age of 93.



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