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RIP Walter Schirra
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Posted: Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 04:20 PM UTC
A true pioneer has left us. Walter Schirra died at age 84. The only astronaut to fly in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs.

Godspeed...

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Posted: Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 06:26 PM UTC

I'm always in awe of anyone with the nerve to be an astronaut but those guys in the early days were something else.

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Posted: Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 07:23 PM UTC
Nerve isn't what I was going to call it but this is a family friendly website...



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Posted: Thursday, May 03, 2007 - 10:57 PM UTC

My thoughts exactly

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Posted: Friday, May 04, 2007 - 09:45 AM UTC
R.I.P.
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Posted: Friday, May 04, 2007 - 05:15 PM UTC
Good by Wally. Second star to the right and straight on til morning.
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Posted: Friday, May 04, 2007 - 05:17 PM UTC
R.I.P
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Posted: Friday, June 01, 2007 - 03:52 AM UTC
Just saw this post, I didn't know he passed away. A true pioneer, a brave man, a gifted flyer and a pathfinder for all that followed.

Quote from Wally on the Russians seemed to have 'solved' the problem of spacecraft rendezvous:

"When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!" - Wally Schirra


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