Posted on 05/26/2018 11:20:27 AM PDT by DFG
The Apollo astronaut and the fourth man to walk on the moon, Alan Bean has died at age 86.
Bean died on Saturday at Houston Methodist Hospital.
"Alan was the strongest and kindest man I ever knew. He was the love of my life and I miss him dearly," said Leslie Bean, Alan Bean's wife of 40 years. "A native Texan, Alan died peacefully in Houston surrounded by those who loved him."
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Yeah....
Socialism and racial quotas.
I think the descent downhill started with the leftist phrase “If we can put a man on the moon, then why can’t we feed the kids in Africa” and other variations of that phrase.
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Continues to this day even on FR with, “We can’t afford it.”
We have used our extra $$$ toward social projects vs space exploration. Upwards of $20 Trillion dollars.
we might be hard pressed to even re-create the moon missions of nearly half a century ago.
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No one alive knows how to start the F5 Saturn engines ...
We can recreate it on a computer. No need to risk life.
Seriously I hope we go back and explore. It is missing that human feeling.
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At the time it was called: HOPE. But then, in a act of loss of political will mirroring the one 10 years prior, that was murdered ... again.
latest electric cart has sent back another picture of a rock, just like the last million pictures of rocks.
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Not a fan of space exploration or science I see ...
My youngest son gave me that book a couple weeks ago. I really liked it.
Sorry to hear about the passing of Alan Bean.
Fair winds and following seas, sir.
(He was a Navy guy.)
We are so screwed.
Think if what we accomplished in the sixties: while fighting a war in Viet Nam, we also went from virtual scratch to putting a man on the moon, while also enjoying an unprecedented standard of living here at home. Then... what happened?!
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What happened was a second loss of political will, mirroring the one 10 years prior that killed Project Orion - the real original space program.
Moral: politicians do not want their tax base moving beyond their control.
Ad Astra, Alan Bean. SCE to Aux.
Prayers for your loved ones.
Just happened to recently watch the “From the Earth to the Moon” episode of his moon landing. The actor who portrayed him did an excellent job.
May he rest in peace, and may his family be comforted in their loss.
Actually Richard Nixon, father of the surrender monkey wing of the republican party, was the person most responsible. Five senators - William Proxmire, Birch Bayh, Jacob Javits, Walter Mondale and Edward Kennedy led the effort to kill the space program in the early '70s. Spiro Agnew tried to fight back but Nixon caved. (He did that a lot.)
Wow! I’m blown away.
I last saw Al Feb. 20th of this year when he attended and spoke at my dad’s funeral at Arlington, his Apollo 12 crewmate, Captain Richard “Dick” F. Gordon, Jr. USN, Deceased. He looked the picture of health, so I find this shocking.
I have video of the half-hour talk he gave, which was essentially an oral history of what went down and when and how he got pulled onto the Apollo 12 crew. I’d love to share it, but it needs editing with a second video and I don’t know how to do it.
Anyone want to help I’d be happy to try and pull it off.
RIP Al. You were so kind to me. Godspeed and say hello to Pop for me.
Well, at least pop bands got hit singles out of it.
I saw a documentary on the recording "We Are The World" some years ago. Limousine after limousine pulled to the recording studio, depositing big stars like U2, Bruce Springsteen, Cyndi Lauper, George Michael, etc. During the recording, the champagne and caviar flowed. Then they were dumped back in their limos and driven back to their gated mansions. The record shot to number one and everybody felt good about themselves for a while.
That was back in 1984 or 85. Early rumblings of virtue signaling.
The Rocketdyne F-1 engines at Huntsville have been disassembled, 3-D laser scanned, refurbished and reassembled as an engineering exercise related to the development of the upcoming SLS rocket design. I know the engineers have done live tests of the gas generator, which is the smaller turbine that powers the fuel and oxidizer pumps to the main engine. They still know how to make it fly (Pratt & Whitney/Rocketdyne *does* still have all the blueprints, too, contrary to urban legend).
There was an article here recently stating that no one knew the start up sequence - deviation would be a catastrophic failure. Don’t remember the article perhaps from space.com
I remember it all too well. Surely a bunch of rock stars singing together will solve a lot of the world’s problems, right? They weren’t even getting paid, and some actually stopped doing drugs for a while. And I’m almost positive that literally lots of ordinary nobodies dropped their drug habits when Hollywood stars showed up for “get high on yourself” week on NBC back in the 80’s. All those washed up actors looked pretty enthusiastic about it, so why wouldn’t it work?
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