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  1. Mr, Ed - the Imitation (accept no original) says:
    3/9/2011 at 4:10 pm

    OK, NOW you can fart !!!

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  2. athenos says:
    3/9/2011 at 4:47 pm

    Folks, please take care of our ozone layer!

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  3. Olo Baggins of Bywater says:
    3/9/2011 at 4:52 pm

    The wet stuff.

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  4. deowll says:
    3/9/2011 at 5:42 pm

    I think those are the real thing and at a guess they were practicing for an emergency escape.

    I saw manned spaceflight start and I think I may be seeing it end at least for the US.

    After looking over our national finances much less than completely I’m not sure we will be able to afford a fighter defense in ten years much less take part in the space race. I would only give you 50/50 odds that a 10 year US Fed. Government bond is worth more than the paper it’s printed on.

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  5. Just a guess says:
    3/9/2011 at 5:53 pm

    Bob, unhappy the other astronauts wouldn’t let him play, stood on the side and pissed in the pool.

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  6. Bill R. says:
    3/9/2011 at 6:22 pm

    See… If I paddle like this, I can move the capsule.

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  7. nobody says:
    3/9/2011 at 6:47 pm

    During a break filming the fake moon landings the actors hang out at the pool.

    A lone conspiracy nut watches through the fence

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  8. admfubar says:
    3/9/2011 at 8:03 pm

    Huston! We have parrrrrtaaay!

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  9. swbutt@gmail.com says:
    3/9/2011 at 8:24 pm

    I guess everyone is too young to remember who these men are. This is the crew of Apollo 1. This was the crew that died during a flash fire in the capsule while sitting on the Launch Pad in 1967. The first American Astronauts to die in the line of duty. It was a horrible death.
    Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee.

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  10. Greg Allen says:
    3/9/2011 at 8:58 pm

    swbutt,

    Thanks for the refresher… yeah, I would not have recognized them although I was aware of that story which I think people have generally forgotten after the Shuttle disasters.

    I have wondered whether NASA shouldn’t go back to capsules for manned space trips. Despite Apollo 1, they seem safer and sturdier.

    The cargo can go up on much larger, automated rockets.

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  11. spam filter says:
    3/10/2011 at 7:40 am

    Gotta luv wiki…

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_1_crew_during_water_egress_training,_June_1966.jpg

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  12. Joseph J Gudac Jr says:
    3/10/2011 at 9:23 am

    That is the crew of Apollo 1 that died in the fire on the Launch Pad in January 27, 1967. Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee.

    This was probably an early practice of egressing from the Apollo capsule.

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  13. Uncle Patso says:
    3/10/2011 at 12:38 pm

    Happier times…

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  14. wirelessg says:
    3/10/2011 at 1:52 pm

    Marco?!

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  15. Nobody says:
    3/10/2011 at 2:00 pm

    @Greg – Sending up cargo on a unmanned lifter isn’t glamorous exciting or fundable.
    I suppose you could bolt a sealed capsule on the front of a cargo lifter just to say you had done it but that is so pointless even the French abandoned the idea

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