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They rode that ship almost half a million miles in that condition. Amazing.
1 posted on 04/17/2010 5:26:12 AM PDT by sig226
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2 posted on 04/17/2010 5:26:41 AM PDT by sig226 (Mourn this day, the death of a great republic. March 21, 2010)
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Yep. Those astronauts were undoubtedly some of the luckiest men ever.

Talk about being far from home without a spare.


3 posted on 04/17/2010 5:31:08 AM PDT by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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INCREDIBLE.

And a charade that was totally unnecessary, if many sources are to be believed.

. . . the charade being . . . that we needed such primative craft, at all.


5 posted on 04/17/2010 5:55:11 AM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: sig226

God has carried me quite a distance, but wow...


6 posted on 04/17/2010 6:08:24 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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Houston we have a problem.


11 posted on 04/17/2010 6:52:55 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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If that happened today with the NASA we have now...


13 posted on 04/17/2010 7:00:03 AM PDT by henkster (A broken government does not merit full faith and credit.)
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This picture strikes me as deeply symbolic of us and our nation as we stand right now. My mind is swimming in parallels.


22 posted on 04/17/2010 8:02:31 AM PDT by wheresmyusa
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They rode that ship almost half a million miles in that condition. Amazing.

Even more amazing is they did it with Forrest Gump in charge!

24 posted on 04/17/2010 8:10:17 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 450 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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