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  • Twice around the Moon, and gone in 97 years

    From Snidely@snidely.too@gmail.com to sci.space.policy on Fri Aug 8 14:35:28 2025
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    Jim Lovell, Gemini and Apollo astronaut, has died at age 97.
    Naval aviator (F2H Banshee and other), Gemini 7 Pilot, Gemini 12
    Command Pilot, Apollo Command Module Pilot, Apollo 13 Commander.

    Here's the BBC's written obituary: <URL:https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cl7y8zq5xpno>

    Thank you for Earthrise, Jim, and may your voyage take you to even more wonderful places.

    /dps
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  • From Snidely@snidely.too@gmail.com to sci.space.policy,sci.space.history on Fri Aug 8 16:07:43 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.space.policy

    Snidely pounded on thar keyboard to tell us
    Jim Lovell, Gemini and Apollo astronaut, has died at age 97.
    Naval aviator (F2H Banshee and other), Gemini 7 Pilot, Gemini 12 Command Pilot, Apollo Command Module Pilot, Apollo 13 Commander.

    Here's the BBC's written obituary: <URL:https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cl7y8zq5xpno>

    Thank you for Earthrise, Jim, and may your voyage take you to even more wonderful places.

    /dps

    Forgot the xpost

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