RIP, Commander McDivitt
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RIP, indeed, spaceman.
All of these names are so familiar to me. But that was half a century ago, of course.
Can anyone even name the commander of the first shuttle flight?
(I can)
SpaceX is making flights routine, and the astronauts are descending into anonymity.
Maybe that's a good thing.
Everyone remembers Orville and Wilbur. Can anyone remember the next guys?
(I remember where I was when that happened, but the names have slipped my mind)
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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When he joined the Air Force in 1951 as an aviation cadet after attending junior college, Mr. McDivitt had “never been in an airplane, never been off the ground,” as he recalled in an interview for NASA’s Johnson Space Center Oral History Project.
He went on to fly 145 fighter missions during the Korean War, became an Air Force test pilot, then was selected by NASA in September 1962 as one of nine astronauts for the Gemini program, the bridge between the original Mercury Seven astronauts and the Apollo missions leading to the moon landings.
Michigan boy done good.
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@George-K said in RIP, Commander McDivitt:
Orville and Wilbur
Another place worth visiting.
You can stand on the spot where the plane left the ground and see the spot, just over there, where they landed.
12 seconds 180 feet,
It is fun to think the first flight was the length of half a football field and all subsequent flights, including Jim McDivitt's, have built on that.
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I noticed an article about this that said:
"James McDivitt, who oversaw the Gemini IV and Apollo 9 missions, "
Oversaw?
You don't oversee an Apollo mission, you command it.
I Googled and found this word was repeated in several news stories, of course they just copy each other.
Where did oversee come from?
Does this make him an Overseer?
Oh-Oh
If that word isn't forbidden yet, I assume it soon will be.
