On 2016-12-08 14:47:10 -0800, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> said:
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> "Miloch" wrote in message news:o2cgh402vun@drn.newsguy.com...
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>> http://myfox8.com/2016/12/08/john-glenn-dead-at-95/
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>> Glenn piloted the Mercury space capsule, dubbed Friendship 7, and circled
>> the planet three times in just under five hours on February 20, 1962.
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> I was eight years old when I got up early to watch the liftoff live. There
> had been so many spectacular Atlas launch failures that we held our breath
> and prayed it wouldn't go KABOOM, but the rocket kept going up and up and up
> until it was out of sight. When I left for school, lordy, was I happy that a
> man in space was now science fact, no longer science fiction.
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Yup!
I was thirteen on that day, and I also held my breath with that com;
"God speed John Glenn".
That lift off changed everything. However, Shepard, Grissom, and Glenn
might have been our first, but Gagarin was the man who first
transcended science and fiction.
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Regards,
Savageduck
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