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Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr.(Apollo flight director) has just passed
July 22,2019

Posted on 07/22/2019 3:03:55 PM PDT by BulletBobCo

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To: Wonder Warthog

I was posting in the context of the space program. I have a lot of the documentaries on Apollo. Cronkite was very good on that.


41 posted on 07/25/2019 6:49:23 AM PDT by odawg
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Sorry to hear about that but at least he had a long life. Just days after the 50th anniversary, wow.


42 posted on 07/25/2019 9:31:33 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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"I was posting in the context of the space program. I have a lot of the documentaries on Apollo. Cronkite was very good on that."

That "good" was in the service of evil. I'm sure Obama at some point in his life was good at "something" (maybe reading speeches from a teleprompter)..the overall impact is still hugely bad.

43 posted on 07/25/2019 10:03:56 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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From Wikipedia:

“[Cronkite] was one of eight journalists selected by the United States Army Air Forces to fly bombing raids over Germany in a B-17 Flying Fortress part of group called the Writing 69th, and during a mission fired a machine gun at a German fighter. He also landed in a glider with the 101st Airborne in Operation Market Garden and covered the Battle of the Bulge.”

The man was brilliant and had guts. Those airmen in the B-17s had only a one in two chance of returning.

All we can hope for is that he was right or got right with God before he died.


44 posted on 07/25/2019 3:02:59 PM PDT by odawg
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