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Who is/was you favorite Astronaut?
Who is/was your favorite Astronaut?
For me, it's John Glenn and John Young, both have impressed me with their talents and contirbutions to the space program over the years. Who is yours and why? |
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Now that's a tough one.
Alan Shepard is up there (first in space, NH native) Gene Cernan (actually got to do an interview with him once) Walt Cunningham (One of the astronaut I got to meet. Impressed with his down home attitude and approach to life. More recently, Winston Scott - Another whom I got to meet with for a while and enjoyed the time.
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Virgil Ivan Grissom
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Virgil "Gus" Grissom. The first man to fly in space twice and the first man scheduled for a third flight into space. He was so private he built a house with no front windows. Grissom certainly would've been a moonwalker had he lived.
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James Lovell; got to meet him once and have two autographs of his.
Also have autographs from Ed Mitchell and Walt Cunningham.
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Impossible to really say just going by movies like The Right Stuff, and an article here and there. Toughness, sense of humor, etc. It's been a long time since I've seen the movie or done any reading about the astronauts. They were all tough, so that isn't an issue.
Shepard, Grissom, Young, Schirra. I probably wouldn't have picked Schirra, but I read his book, Schirra's Space. Shepard-first to play a sport on the moon Grissom-named his Gemini ship the Unsinkable Molly Brown just to annoy his detractors Young-snuck a real corn beef sandwich on board, only person to fly three generations of spacecraft, had a blast on the moon Schirra-for ever antic he wrote about in his book
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Too tough to pick one, so-
Pioneers - Laika Mercury era- Wally Schirra Gemini/Apollo era - Buzz Aldrin Shuttle era - Story Musgrave http://www.storymusgrave.com/ Modern era -Mike Melvill / Brian Binnie
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I met Bill Pailes, he was on a DOD mission and worked in the Pentagon last time I knew.
I also had the opportunity to meet Brian Binnie, it was the end of April of 2006, he was at the Lincoln Park Airport in New Jersey. Buzz Aldrin was from Montclaire NJ, my former home state, there is a plaque in the front of his house, but, Buzz said it reminded him of a grave marker. |
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That is an easy answer for me. It is Bill Anders. My father and Bill were both Naval Academy class of 1955. Then had the same primary flight instructor in the Air Force.(You could change services in pre Air Force Academy days.)Their jobs crossed again in the early 60's. Dad just got a masters in BioAstro Engineering and was working with the NASA doctors on the Gemini program. Dad said the camera used to take the famous earth rise photo Bill would carry around to the kids ball games,backyard bar-b-q 's ,ect. just to get practice with it. Dad moved on to other jobs in the Air Force and retired in 74.
I never thought it was a big deal when I was a kid and we would get Christmas cards from an astronaut every year,but now I know better. |
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For me, it's a good friend of mine. Jay Apt.
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