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Topic: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo astronaut resting places?
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Columbiad1 Member Posts: 38 From: Lakeland, FL, USA Registered: Jul 2004
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posted 06-21-2005 09:50 AM
Does anyone know of some of grave site locations for the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts? I know Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee, Pete Conrad and Jim Irwin are in Arlington National Cemetery and Ed White is interred at the USMA Cemetery at West Point. Anyone know about Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton, Gordon Cooper and from Apollo Donn Eisele, Stu Roosa and Ron Evans? |
thump Member Posts: 575 From: washington dc usa Registered: May 2004
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posted 06-21-2005 09:54 AM
Roosa is also in Arlington, Shepard's cremated remains were spread in the ocean, I believe the Pacific. |
Scott Member Posts: 3307 From: Houston, TX Registered: May 2001
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posted 06-21-2005 10:10 AM
You will find locations and pictures for all here. |
nasamad Member Posts: 2121 From: Essex, UK Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 06-21-2005 10:19 AM
Don't forget Swigert! |
thump Member Posts: 575 From: washington dc usa Registered: May 2004
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posted 06-21-2005 01:21 PM
One other in Arlington is Eisele. Charles Bassett, CC Williams and Ted Freeman also rest there. |
mdmyer Member Posts: 900 From: Humboldt KS USA Registered: Dec 2003
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posted 06-21-2005 02:55 PM
Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee, Jim Irwin, and Donn Eisele are all buried within a few feet of each other in Arlington. They all have the common white stone. Roosa is not far from the Tomb of the Unknowns. His stone is dark brown and has a very detailed Saturn V on one side and the Apollo 14 emblem on the other. |
KC Stoever Member Posts: 1012 From: Denver, CO USA Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 08-06-2005 07:08 PM
We were just talking about this subject. (As an octagenarian, Carpenter is now fielding phone calls from foresighted obituary writers — so the subject came up). Carpenter reaaffirmed, to several children, his long-stated wish to be buried in an aspen grove on the family ranch, homesteaded in 1906. It's in Routt County, Colorado, elevation about 9000 feet. |
mdmyer Member Posts: 900 From: Humboldt KS USA Registered: Dec 2003
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posted 08-06-2005 07:12 PM
Sounds like a nice place. I read about 80 pages out of "How NASA Learned to Fly" today and it mentioned that Charlie Bassett and Elliot See are buried at Arlington. |
Bert Vis New Member Posts: 5 From: Den Haag, The Netherlands Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 08-07-2005 03:32 AM
For those interested, here's the complete list of those selected between 1959 and 1969 (which I consider the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo astronauts): - Arlington: Freeman, Bassett, See, Chaffee, Grissom, Williams, Eisele, Irwin, Roosa, Overmyer, Conrad
- West Point: White
- Quanah, Texas: Givens
- Wheat Ridge, Colorado: Swigert
- Paradise Valley, Arizona: Evans
- Mount Everest: Henize
- Cremated, ashes scattered: Slayton (on the family ranch in Sparta WI), Shepard (Pacific Ocean)
- Unknown: Cooper
Hope this helps. When someone manages to find out Cooper's location, I'd be most interested. |
kyra Member Posts: 583 From: Louisville CO US Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 08-07-2005 09:50 AM
That was a surprise to here Jack Swigert's final resting place is down the road (20 minutes) in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.A coworker was telling me a bunch of Jack Swigert stories (playing golf with him, toying with the awards on his mantle, BBQ's etc.) and I thought he might be making this up. He remarked that Swigert didn't strike him as what he would picture as being an astronaut that had flown to the moon. Perhaps now we could both visit his grave, especially if we knew which cemetery. |
Bert Vis New Member Posts: 5 From: Den Haag, The Netherlands Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 08-07-2005 01:37 PM
quote: Originally posted by kyra: Perhaps now we could both visit his grave, especially if we knew which cemetery.
Mount Olivet Cemetery, section 17, Block 1, Lot 15, Grave 9. |
Shuttlewatcher New Member Posts: 3 From: Tampa, Fl, Hills. Registered: Jun 2002
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posted 02-15-2015 11:38 AM
"Deke" Slayton's ashes are scattered on his farm in Oklahoma.Alan Shepard's remains were scattered in the water off of Pebble Beach, Ca. Stuart Rosa's grave is located just below the Tomb of the Unknown soldier in Arlington. Ron Evans ashes are entombed in a wall at a church in Scottsdale, Az. |
Dirk Member Posts: 933 From: Belgium Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 02-15-2015 12:31 PM
Wasn't part of Cooper's ashes not shoot into space some years ago, together with James Doohan's? |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 02-15-2015 12:42 PM
Yes, a very small amount of Gordon Cooper's remains have been launched with a few spaceflights organized by Celestis memorial services, including a suborbital flight launched in April 2007, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket in August 2008 (the same flight that included Doohan's remains) and a Falcon 9 flight in May 2012. |