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Comments on: RIP Wally Schirra 1923-2007 https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/03/rip-wally-schirra-1923-2007/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:09:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/03/rip-wally-schirra-1923-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-25997 Fri, 04 May 2007 01:45:08 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/03/rip-wally-schirra-1923-2007/#comment-25997 They were a great group, the original Mercury Seven astronauts, and an inspiration, Fallenmonk.

Less than two years to go, and we can change that, Karen.

]]> By: Karen https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/03/rip-wally-schirra-1923-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-25995 Fri, 04 May 2007 00:50:28 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/03/rip-wally-schirra-1923-2007/#comment-25995 Fooey, and at the rate the NASA budget is getting cut – may be all the astronauts of our youth will pass by before any new ones earn their wings. 🙁

]]> By: fallenmonk https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/03/rip-wally-schirra-1923-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-25994 Fri, 04 May 2007 00:49:42 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/03/rip-wally-schirra-1923-2007/#comment-25994 R.I.P., Wally Schirra thanks for the excitement and memories. These guys were my heroes growing up and they stimulated a lot of my love of science and space. Our lives would be much shallower without them.

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/03/rip-wally-schirra-1923-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-25990 Fri, 04 May 2007 00:01:08 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/03/rip-wally-schirra-1923-2007/#comment-25990 He did some one off things, like being in the Navy, but flying with the Air Force in Korea. Test pilots are all weird, or they wouldn’t get into brand new aircraft. He was that rarest of birds – an old bold pilot.

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/03/rip-wally-schirra-1923-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-25986 Thu, 03 May 2007 23:20:54 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/05/03/rip-wally-schirra-1923-2007/#comment-25986 Sigh. The heroes of my childhood are rapidly departing this earth in a different way. I remember sitting in classrooms full of students, our attention fixed on the radio… yes, radio is all we had in the classrooms, for the earliest missions in the Mercury days… awaiting news of the launches, awaiting the words of the astronauts themselves. I remember as if it were yesterday. And now another great one is gone. R.I.P., Wally Schirra… what a career he had.

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