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To: The KG9 Kid

“If we die, we want people to accept it. We’re in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.”
- Gus Grissom


71 posted on 10/31/2014 7:18:42 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975

These days, NASA is uber risk averse.


72 posted on 10/31/2014 7:21:08 PM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: naturalman1975
Yes. Those were amazing men, they grasped it perfectly. They lived it and believed it.
76 posted on 10/31/2014 7:39:12 PM PDT by rlmorel (The Media's Principles: Conflict must exist. Doesn't exist? Create it. Exists? Exacerbate it.)
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