Remembering Apollo 1
On January 27, 1967, Apollo 1’s crew—Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White II and Roger B. Chaffee—was killed when a fire erupted in their capsule during testing. Apollo 1 was originally designated AS-204 but following the fire, the astronauts’ widows requested that the mission be remembered as Apollo 1 and following missions would be numbered subsequent to the flight that never made it into space.
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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”- Ernest Hemingway
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- Gemini III capsule showing a billowing cloud formation over Madagascar.
- Uplifted rocks at the west edge of the Tibesti Mountains in Libya.
- Astronaut Michael Collins looking somewhat shy as he sits within his spacesuit inside the capsule during the Gemini X mission.
- The sister missions, Gemini VI-A and VII.
- The Gemini VIII mission docked with the unmanned Agena craft.
Via Nerv
Alan L. Bean, Lunar Module pilot for the Apollo 12 mission, starts down the ladder of the Lunar Module “Intrepid” to join mission Commander Charles Conrad Jr., on the lunar surface.
Last Words
Ted Bundy - “I’d like you to give my love to my family and friends.”
Serial Killer Ted Bundy confessed to killing 30 women between 1974 and 1979 in Washington, Colorado, Florida and Utah. His total number of victims is unknown and is estimated to run over 100.
Aileen Wuornos - “I’d just like to say I’m sailing with the rock, and I’ll be back like Independence Day, with Jesus June 6. Like the movie, big mother ship and all, I’ll be back.”
In 1989 and 1990, Wuornos robbed, shot and killed at least 6 men.
John Wayne Gacy - “Kiss my ass.”
John Wayne Gacy was convicted of the rape and murder of 33 men between 1972 and 1978. He was known as the Killer Clown.
James French - “Hey fellas! How about this for a headline for tomorrow’s paper? ‘French fries’!”
French murdered is cellmate in order to be executed instead of serving a life sentence.
Carl Panzram - “Hurry up, you Hoosier bastard, I could kill ten men while you’re fooling around!”
Panzram confessed to killing 22 people and having sodomized over 1,000 males.
Jeffrey Dahmer - “I don’t care if I live or die. Go ahead and kill me.”
Dahmer murdered 17 males between 1978 and 1991. His murders included rape, dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism.
Peter Kurten - “Tell me, after my head has been chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be a pleasure to end all pleasures.”
Kurten was convicted of killing 9 people but his estimated number of victims could be over 60.
Intense
