[airvet]

America has forgotten its heroes. This month marks 50 years since those with the right stuff were selected to be the Mercury Seven. Ony one place in the country will mark the occasion with an appearence by Scott Carpenter at the new science museum in Warminster, PA. The location where all the early astronauts tained for the rigors of space flight in the big centrifuge there. We need to make some noise and challange the government to honor these men before they pass from the scene altogether. Forget politics, men like these will not walk the earth again.

[Pelham]

There’s still some of us who remember the original seven astronauts. I can think of six of them without cheating using google. Shepard, Carpenter, Cooper, Schirra, Glenn, Grissom... so who am I forgetting?

[magellan]

Thanks for posting this.

I long for an America which once again thinks nothing is impossible.

Per ardua ad astra.

[roses of sharon]

My heroes....forever.

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/when-we-left-earth-sneak-peek-promo.html

[dancusa]

Deke Slayton never flew Mercury do to a heart murmur, Slayton later flew the Apollo - Soyuz docking mission in 1975.

[dancusa]

I haven't used google yet. But a sidenote on Scott Carpenter. Carpenter played around too much with the capsule controls and spent up the onboard maneuvering fuel. He landed a few hundred miles off course. It took a few hours for the Navy to pick him up. He never got another ride. After he left the astronaut corps he went into deep sea diving in test submersible vehicles for the Navy.

[Trod Upon]

Judging by the headline I was half expecting a taxidermy story.

[NonValueAdded]

Forget politics, men like these will not walk the earth again.

Looking forward to the day when men (and women) like those will walk the surface of the Moon and Mars.

[Mr. K]

OK FOLKS! HERE IS WHAT WE NEED TO DO

ASK AROUND- I DONT CARE WHO YOU TALK TO...

IF THE JUDGES ARE GOING TO SAY NO ONE SO FAR HAS HAD ‘PROPER STANDING’ TO REQUEST A BIRTH CERTIFICATE, THEN WHO DOES?

LET’s MAKE HIM SH#$$ OR GET OFF THE POT