October 05, 2004

Geek Cool:

Not "Geek Cool" but a sad passing...

    By Jack Grant

In a sad counterpoint to the success of SpaceShipOne in winning the Ansari X Prize, Astronaut Gordon Cooper, one of the original Mercury 7, died on Monday at the age of 77. He was the astronaut played by Dennis Quaid in the movie The Right Stuff who said very memorably, "Who's the best pilot you ever saw?"

He went farther, faster, and higher than anyone ever had before...

Posted by Jack Grant at 20:41 on 5 October 2004
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He really was the right stuff, sad to hear the news :(

Posted by: oregon yurts at October 9, 2004 12:21 PM



























































































































































































































































































































































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