[Newsbot]

Title: NASA displays Apollo capsule hatch 50 years after fatal fire
Category: Tech
Posted By: Strutz
Date: 2017-01-25 14:59:25

[DrCaleb]

That story still gives me shivers.

[BartSimpson]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

That story still gives me shivers.

What a horrid, horrid way to go.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

That story still gives me shivers.

What a horrid, horrid way to go.

But it also highlights all the other astronauts who, having mourned their friends and colleagues, had the balls to say 'yes, strap me in!'.

[2Cdo]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

That story still gives me shivers.

What a horrid, horrid way to go.

But it also highlights all the other astronauts who, having mourned their friends and colleagues, had the balls to say 'yes, strap me in!'.

Well said.

[xerxes]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

That story still gives me shivers.

What a horrid, horrid way to go.

But it also highlights all the other astronauts who, having mourned their friends and colleagues, had the balls to say 'yes, strap me in!'.

Well said indeed. I just saw this photo today. It's a small plaque and sculpture that was left on the Moon by the astronauts of Apollo 15 to commemorate the astronauts and cosmonauts who died.