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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Brad Johnson on January 03, 2023, 09:12:56 PM
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Walt Cunningham, last surviving Apollo 7 crewmember, has passed.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/walter-cunningham-nasa-apollo-7-astronaut-dies-true-hero
Godspeed, Marine.
Brad
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High Flight
by
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air . . .
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
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High Flight
by
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air . . .
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
I picture Opus Penguin quoting that in a Bloom County book I used to have.
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I picture Opus Penguin quoting that in a Bloom Count book I used to have.
While he's trying to fly.
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While he's trying to fly.
Yup! I looked for that panel but my Google-foo failed me.
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"High Flight," a fitting tribute.
Excelsior, Walt Cunningham.
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R.I.P., Astronaut