[DBWI] R.I.P. Eugene Cernan

Archibald

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August 10, 1982. A day that will live in mankind memory forever. The day we walked on Mars... and never returned.
In his memoir Cernan jokingly said he hammered astronaut boss Deke Slayton with a simple argument: being the last on the Moon, I would like to be the first on Mars.

OOC-1 : that was the exact date specified by Werner von Braun at a top-brass NASA briefing on August, 4, 1969, three weeks after the Moon landing. At the cost of a total "war budget" all-out effort.

OOC-2: ITTL I would be the most frustrated space cadet in existence - having missed the Moon landings by 13 to 10 years; being a toddler in August 1982 (I've born May 1982).
 
OOC- I was born less that a year after Cernan walked on the moon and may well be dead of old age before the next person does.
As a wanna-be astronaut kid, I was sad because I thought I was too young to be the first astronaut on Mars.
 

Archibald

Banned
Someday I will write a TL called "a different summer 1982" centered on the months of July and August.

July 8, 1982: France kick ass of Germany in the 1982 World Cup(fuck Harald Shumacher, and all hail Michel Platini !)
July 16, 1982: Patrick dewaere don't shoot himself in the head (with Coluche rifle, damn it !)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Dewaere
August 8, 1982: Didier Pironi don't crash his Ferrari into Alain Prost Renault at Hockenheim and save his legs... and his chance for the F1 pilot championship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Pironi
https://sports.vice.com/en_au/article/the-cult-didier-pironi
August 11, 1982: Man land on Mars for the first time.

Now that would make for a much happier 1982. IOTL it was a crappy year in par with 1994 or 2014.
 
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