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.
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
65 years ago, Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space aboard Freedom 7 (May 5, 1961)
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ReplyDeleteThey have on at the museum in DC. You do not exaggerate. That thing is tiny.
DeleteYup. Think of the size of his gonads to be a lab rat on top of a column of fire.
ReplyDeleteHe peed in his suit. They held the launch too long.
ReplyDeleteNear earth orbit...perfectly possible.
ReplyDeleteThe only one of the original Mercury 7 to walk on the moon, too. Incredible.
ReplyDeleteI’m a tad claustrophobic. That capsule just wouldn’t do.
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