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R.I.P.; Scot Carpenter
Topic Started: Oct 10 2013, 02:15 PM (150 Views)
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Pisa-Carp
This one really hurts.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/10/scott-carpenter-dead-age-88_n_4080474.html
I'M NOT YELLING.........I'M ITALIAN...........THAT'S HOW WE TALK!


"People say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look."
Ronald Reagan, Inaugural, 1971

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Copper
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Those 7 guys were great.

Without question the coolest guys ever.

I believe John Glenn is the only one left.

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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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From what I remember, Carpenter was the more philosophical astronaut, and was more interested in answering "what's out there" kinds of questions than the others.

RIP, spaceman. :(
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
‘til touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh no, no, no, I'm a rocket man
Rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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Red Rice
HOLY CARP!!!
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Silver spacesuits FTW!
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

- Cecil Lewis
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