To: SAMWolf
Good morning, people! Inspiring but tragic story. My dad knew Gus Grissom and Al Shepard. When "The Right Stuff" movie came out in, what, 1980? ... he talked about what the astronauts were like, and what military aviation was like in those days. Corners were cut and stupid decisions made, and pilots died. I guess it's true today too.
16 posted on
09/06/2004 6:12:48 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
("The promotion of bad dress codes is the desire of arrogant powers; shame on the government!")
To: Tax-chick
My dad knew Gus Grissom and Al Shepard. Cool!!
Corners were cut and stupid decisions made, and pilots died. I guess it's true today too.
Two Space shuttle disasters tend to bear this out.
32 posted on
09/06/2004 8:25:59 AM PDT by
SAMWolf
(A Kerry defeat would be the Vietnam Vets welcome-home parade they never had.)
To: Tax-chick
Good morning tax-chick. Bureaucracies are all alike.
45 posted on
09/06/2004 8:42:27 AM PDT by
snippy_about_it
(Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
To: Tax-chick
Did your father work at the Cape?
51 posted on
09/06/2004 9:28:28 AM PDT by
snopercod
(I have no interest in streamlining government or making it more efficient, I mean to reduce its size)
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