Spending This Sunday Evening Thinking Abt How Gus And Deke Were Best Friends, Wore Matching Shirts, Built

Neil doodles

Reminders

“He might as well have been the brother I never had, a man of gentle strength and quiet humor. There was something very special about him. He really was the astronaut’s astronaut, a handsome and powerfully built man who actually seemed indestructible.” -Frank Borman on Ed White

*Tom Stafford in here*

And finally my love, smiley John Watts Young

1950s-pre NASA 1960s John

Gus and Ed at Downey, June 1966

Happy birthday to Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968), the first human in space, who would’ve turned 85 today!

“Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!”

“My biggest plan, my greatest dream is to do it one more time… to go to space a few more times. I want to fly there, see more, go to other planets.”

“Jim, don’t wave at him! He knows what we did to the honeymoon suite!”

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