nate norrgardnate norrgard - LiveJournal.comRemember when people had heroes worthy of the name- May 4, 2007 Or even just had heroesWe lost someone's hero today. Someone worthy of it. Who did great things.One of the first into space and in the early 1960's. Over forty years later the only accomplishment we can claim is that now wealthy tourists can pay to take the path he helped blaze but not any further in all that time. How little we have accomplished.I wonder how he felt about that."I left Earth three times. I found no place else to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth."-- Wally Schirra (1923 -..http://natenorrgard.livejournal.com/11967.html |