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Mass Murder or Utter Stupidity / Chap. 6 p. 37 MASS MURDER OR UTTER STUPIDITY The Right stuff "The Seven Samurai" is a 1954 Japanese cult movie about a poverty-stricken village that hired seven magnificent warriors to help them fight bandits. In 1960 Hollywood filmed "The Magnificent Seven", which was the same story set in Mexico as a western. Someone in the hierarchy of NASA had undoubtedly seen one or both movies and decided that seven space samurai was a psychologically appropriate number to start with. We were told that these men represented the nation's finest and that they possessed what was later called that elusive quality, "The Right Stuff." Virgil Grissom certainly had "The Right Stuff". He was one of the original seven, culled from the first batch of military test pilots almost a decade before. Grissom was not the type of man who "went along to get along." Men who spend their lives seeking the wild hairs on a new airplane's ass seldom are. He was a professional test pilotand a mechanical engineer and had flown about 100 combat missions in Korea. But he was dead before his flight to the Moon could fulfill his dream. Accidents Compared to civilian test pilots, the astronauts were underpaid. However, their perks were impressive. Their celebrity status instantly conferred upon them all the bonuses usually associated with show business stardom. Each night on the town provided them with all the young women they could handle, plus free drinks in every bar in the country. They were also given a government jet trainer as a personal toy. Test pilots have a hazardous occupation which probably sees as many fatalities per unit of time as do men in combat. However, before the first Apollo manned flight ever cleared the launching pad, eleven astronauts died in accidents. Grissom, Chaffee, and White were cremated in an Apollo capsule test on the launching pad during a completely and suspiciously unnecessary test. Seven died in six air crashes: Freemen, Basset, See, Rogers, Williams, Adams, and Lawrence. Givens was killed in a car crash. When one reflects on their deaths in the light of the three-man instant crematorium one wonders. Add the fact that there were eight deaths in 1967 alone. One wonders if these "accidents" weren't NASA's way of correcting mistakes and saying that some of these men really didn't have "The Right Stuff." After 1967, only Taylor died in another plane crash in 1970. An actuarial statistician would probably go berserk over these numbers considering how small the group was. Another weighty factor: even though they were "hot" pilots, the astronauts flew their trainer jets only part-time. And add to that the fact that trainers are inherently safer than other planes in the same class. It would raise his eyebrows to find how few of these men would ever enter space. I can't help but wonder what technicians serviced their ships — because what we have here is an appalling "accident" rate. They were the finest professional pilots in the world, NASA MOONED AMERICA! / Rene
Mass Murder or Utter Stupidity / Chap. 6 p. 38 operating government planes where costs have little meaning. Yet they died. Even if we call the cremation an accident, we still have five more "accidental" deaths in one year. Very interesting! I also wonder what the death rate was among the other NASA employees who were in a position to know too much SPACE MISSIONS PERFORMED BY ORIGINAL SEVEN Name Mission Date Mission Date Mission Date A. Shepard Mercury 3 05/05/61 Apollo 14 01/31/71 V. Grissom Mercury 4 07/21/61 Gemini 3 03/23/65 J. Glenn Mercury 6 02/20/62 S. Carpenter Mercury 7 05/24/62 W. Schirra Mercury 8 10/03/62 Gemini 6A 12/15/65 Apollo 7 10/11/68 G. Cooper Mercury 9 05/15/63 Gemini 5 08/21/65 The Preliminaries The first American in space was Alan Shepard, followed by Grissom and then Glenn. I'm convinced that every Mercury flight was real and that the phony missions only started after Grissom's Gemini 3. Even some of the later Gemini flights were real (which leaves most of the original astronauts smelling like a rose). Unfortunately, Wally Schirra and NASA General Tom Stafford's Gemini 6A flight, with its miracle of an undamaged antenna, turned the rosy aroma into real toilet water. So did Alan Shepard's little golf game on the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission. All of these men barely entered near space (near-Earth orbit) which 1 define as any altitude less than 500 miles. Far space is for those interstellar journeys that may come during the next millennium. That is, if we can solve our planetary problems before we dissolve in the stew created by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: War, Famine, Plague, Pestilence. Add a fifth "horseman", Religious Fanaticism, which frequently causes the other four. Every other "race" involving aircraft, from hot air balloons through rocket planes, entailed serious efforts to go higher and faster than the other guy. For good technical reasons neither we or the Russians played that game. To this day our shuttle flights are limited to very near space, usually well under 200 miles in altitude. Most writers on the Apollo Program either totally ignored, or played down, the fact that by early January '67, Grissom was no longer a happy camper. He was very disenchanted with both NASA and the prime capsule contractor, North American Aviation. This company had a phoenix-like ability to weather every storm, including the fire on Pad 34. They ultimately combined with Rockwell Engineering to become North American Rockwell. Grissom's Lemon North American Rockwell's first Apollo capsule was delivered and accepted by NASA in August '66, with a flight date set for November. But time after time the date had to be reset because of problems with the craft. "Grissom, a veteran of two test flights in Mercury and Gemini, normally quiet and easy-going, a flight pro, could not hide his irrita- NASA MOONED AMERICA! / Rene
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