Posted on 07/26/2007 1:24:56 PM PDT by Stoat
Yeah, and with all that vitamin C...no space scurvy. bwahahaha!
...I agree... also thinking about the billions of dollars and millions of hours gone into the program, and how many lives lost to get this far, etc. and OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK and why would they take that kind of risk?
ES: "Is that your crash helmet?"
JJ: "Ooooh, I hope not."
Obviously, in light of recent news reports, "Poon"...
Too easy straightman...
Accuracy check: Since the article is off by two years on when American astronauts started flying in space, the rest of the article should be considered at least suspect.
There have long been stories of some of the Apollo guys getting looped or fooling around with groupies in the supposed pristine atmosphere of the pre-launch 24 hours. They even depicted some of it, at least indirectly, in the HBO mini series From The Earth To The Moon. They particularly got after one of the astronauts for having multiple affairs and how his reckless behavior was jeopardizing their image.
And if you ever read The Right Stuff you'll have a completely different picture of the early astronauts and their lifestyles, which did carry over into the early days of the program.
Heck, their favorite hang out was a place called "Pancho's Happy Bottom Riding Club" in the early post war years. These were fighter jocks, the gung ho cowboys riding the lightening. They had an image to live up to!
Folks like Glenn or Aldrin were looked on as stuck up goody two shoes or slide rule types.
It was a guy thing.
Good catch!! I completely missed that.
Hey humble, are you in training?
Could very well be the case! As one who lived in the Cocoa Beach area during 1956-1965 era..., I can attest to the "anything goes" atmosphere of the astronaut corps at the time! In fact, the current "NASA Scandals" pale in comparison to what went on in the early days of NASA (but the media took a pass back then...)!
The Mousetrap & Satellite Lounge will live in my memories forever (only relevant to those who lived there in that era)!
One would think somebody in the editing chain would have caught it.
Probably written and edited at some Miami dance club the night before.
I’ve always said they should help fund the thing by painting it up like a Nascar racer.
How much would Budweiser pay to have the shuttle covered with red paint and the Budweiser name?
I notice that the actual accusation seems to be that they drank withing the 12 hour window...not that they were actually drunk when the flight began. Not optimal, but not the same as the implication.
“One would think somebody in the editing chain would have caught it.”
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Prolly too young to remember. I couldn’t tell you the date of Sheapard’s flight, but I do remember standing in the rain watching a Mercury take-off on a TV in a store window while still in HS. That was before ‘63.
They aren't really needed for much of anything anyway given the level of automation aboard. Increasingly, commercial aviation is that way too. The pilot monitors the plane as it flys more than actually flying it.
Training, hell.
I'm an instructor.
Let's be charitable and say that the writer is lacking in credibility. I also suspect he is fairly young.
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