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RIP John Glenn

Thu Dec 08, 2016 3:40 pm

First American in space orbit, and the oldest person in space at 77.

He lived a pretty amazing life:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn
 
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Re: RIP John Glenn

Thu Dec 08, 2016 3:54 pm

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Re: RIP John Glenn

Thu Dec 08, 2016 4:06 pm

Another hero gone...
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Re: RIP John Glenn

Thu Dec 08, 2016 4:26 pm

2016 has killed off a lot of high-profile people. Those "year in review" or "in memoriam" articles are going to be especially lengthy this time around.
 
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Re: RIP John Glenn

Thu Dec 08, 2016 4:44 pm

There goes the last of the Mercury Seven. :cry:
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Re: RIP John Glenn

Thu Dec 08, 2016 4:52 pm

He certainly lived a full life. 
 
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Re: RIP John Glenn

Thu Dec 08, 2016 5:53 pm

Krogoth wrote:
There goes the last of the Mercury Seven. :cry:

His Stuff was Right. He and Annie spent 73 years together.
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Re: RIP John Glenn

Thu Dec 08, 2016 9:25 pm

I saw the new flash while I was at lunch and the first thing that came to mind was "My God, it's full of stars..."
 
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Re: RIP John Glenn

Thu Dec 08, 2016 9:43 pm

Pville_Piper wrote:
Another hero gone...

Captain Ned wrote:
Krogoth wrote:
There goes the last of the Mercury Seven. :cry:

His Stuff was Right. He and Annie spent 73 years together.

Indeed. The astronauts of NASA were the heroes of my childhood. Unlike many of my peers, I was never much into comic books -- who needed comic book heroes, when there were real-life heroes you could read about?
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Re: RIP John Glenn

Fri Dec 09, 2016 10:51 am

chuckula wrote:

Godspeed  :cry:
 
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Re: RIP John Glenn

Sat Dec 10, 2016 12:36 am

just brew it! wrote:
Indeed. The astronauts of NASA were the heroes of my childhood. Unlike many of my peers, I was never much into comic books -- who needed comic book heroes, when there were real-life heroes you could read about?

I know JBI gets it, but for the younger gerbils just go look at a Mercury "spacecraft". Every one of the 6 that flew is to be found (though the one Gus flew is a bit of a mess, seabed and all); here's the list:

https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and- ... /index.cfm

Look into that tiny SPAM can and just wonder how any sane man volunteered for this mission. The last Mercury mission, flown by Gordo Cooper, went for a day and a half in that little box.
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Re: RIP John Glenn

Sat Dec 10, 2016 7:22 am

Captain Ned wrote:
just brew it! wrote:
Indeed. The astronauts of NASA were the heroes of my childhood. Unlike many of my peers, I was never much into comic books -- who needed comic book heroes, when there were real-life heroes you could read about?

I know JBI gets it, but for the younger gerbils just go look at a Mercury "spacecraft". Every one of the 6 that flew is to be found (though the one Gus flew is a bit of a mess, seabed and all); here's the list:

https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and- ... /index.cfm

Look into that tiny SPAM can and just wonder how any sane man volunteered for this mission. The last Mercury mission, flown by Gordo Cooper, went for a day and a half in that little box.


Not to mention that Redstone and Atlas rockets that they flew in had a nasty tendency (from earlier test unmanned flights) to explode at launchpad like recent SpaceX Falcon 9 debacle.
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Re: RIP John Glenn

Sat Dec 10, 2016 8:12 am

It takes some balls to strap yourself to a ICBM and go for a ride...
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Re: RIP John Glenn

Sat Dec 10, 2016 9:08 am

Pville_Piper wrote:
It takes some balls to strap yourself to a ICBM and go for a ride...
December 12, 1965. Gemini 6. Titan II booster. Booster ignites but shuts down 1.5 seconds later. Wally Schirra (Mercury Seven) doesn't pull the handle to eject (Gemini had ejection seats, not an abort/escape tower) and, in not following protocol, saves the day. The capsule atmosphere was 100% O2 at full atmospheric pressure and they'd been soaking in it for 90 minutes themselves while the capsule had been doing so for hours. The ejection seat rockets firing into that would have turned the two of them into Roman candles had they punched out. Sadly, NASA didn't see the problem with 100% full-pressure O2 until after the Apollo 1 fire.

NASA would never man-rate the Titan II today. It ran on the same hypergolic (mix them and they immediately burn on their own) fuels that the Soviet/Russian Proton and the Chinese Long March series use today. UDMH/N2O4. From my father's Titan II silo days, N2O4 leaks were universally known as BFRCs.
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Re: RIP John Glenn

Sun Dec 11, 2016 6:55 pm

Captain Ned wrote:
NASA would never man-rate the Titan II today.  It ran on the same hypergolic (mix them and they immediately burn on their own) fuels that the Soviet/Russian Proton and the Chinese Long March series use today.  UDMH/N2O4.  From my father's Titan II silo days, N2O4 leaks were universally known as BFRCs.

Speaking of, if anyone here has the slightest interest in chemistry, rocketry, space exploration, or just misguided applications of fire in general, don't die before reading John D. Clark's Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (1972).  He captures the madness of both the times and the people who lived in it with flawless comedic narrative, while covering a remarkable range of chemistry.

It's long out of print but the PDF is widely available at the link above and elsewhere, just make sure to save it locally and open it with something other than the Chrome PDF Viewer because it mangles the formatting.
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Re: RIP John Glenn

Thu Dec 15, 2016 6:52 am

Captain Ned wrote:
just brew it! wrote:
Indeed. The astronauts of NASA were the heroes of my childhood. Unlike many of my peers, I was never much into comic books -- who needed comic book heroes, when there were real-life heroes you could read about?

I know JBI gets it, but for the younger gerbils just go look at a Mercury "spacecraft". Every one of the 6 that flew is to be found (though the one Gus flew is a bit of a mess, seabed and all); here's the list:

https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and- ... /index.cfm

Look into that tiny SPAM can and just wonder how any sane man volunteered for this mission. The last Mercury mission, flown by Gordo Cooper, went for a day and a half in that little box.
Here's your spacecraft! A 2,000 pound can made out of corrugated metal and some ablative plastic on the underside to protect you from 3,000 degree heat on re-entry. Mind your re-entry angle, now. By the way, you're going into orbit on top of an Atlas rocket, which likes to blow up every now and then. Good luck!

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