And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Or maybe not ... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/new-evidence-shows-gus-grissom-did-not-accidentally-sink-his-own-spacecraft-sixty-years-ago-180978240/ Mark in PA
Oh I can understand that, no Fusion-reactor, no gravity drive and GASP! no shields! And then you're crawling in Zero-G for - what? - three days to the moon? And than that shit-capsule explodes around your ears and GASP! you have to repair it yourself!
Water egress training. Probably not doable in an actual emergency.
ReplyDeleteTight quarters probably filled 110% by his huevos.
ReplyDeleteWas that Grissom?
ReplyDeletescrewing the pooch?
DeleteOr maybe not ... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/new-evidence-shows-gus-grissom-did-not-accidentally-sink-his-own-spacecraft-sixty-years-ago-180978240/
DeleteMark in PA
Not quite terra firma yet.
ReplyDeleteAny landing you can swim away from is a good landing.
ReplyDeleteThat was the emergency exit on the Mercury capsule. Had to unbolt the instrument panel and squirm around in the cabin to "egress" (NASA talk).
ReplyDeletehttp://heroicrelics.org/info/project-mercury/capsule-escape-hatch.html
ReplyDeleteI just watched the old movie, "Apallo 13" on Netflix. What a primitive way to fly to the moon.
ReplyDeleteOh I can understand that, no Fusion-reactor, no gravity drive and GASP! no shields! And then you're crawling in Zero-G for - what? - three days to the moon? And than that shit-capsule explodes around your ears and GASP! you have to repair it yourself!
DeleteKnolli
Can't believe nobody said anything about his converse tennis shoes.
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