#ted freeman

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NASA Remembers Fallen Heroes

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'You are all alone now, Creon,' observes the Chorus, who has the last word: 'A great, sad peace descends on Thebes, and on the empty palace where Creon begins to wait for death.' Yet while waiting for that death, Creon still has to rule; life has to go on. He exits with the page to attend a council meeting called for five o'clock. As the curtain falls, the last action belongs to the guards, who slam their cards down on the table and drink their wine. The events of the day are of little concern to them.

Ted Freeman, from the Plot Notes to Jean Anouilh’s Antigone, Methuen Drama | Bloomsbury Classics, 2005

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The lovely Astronaut Group 3 aka the “the new fourteen” having Water Survival Training in Pennsacola, Florida. 

Must say always see photos of the second group having Water Survival Training never the third. So here is one. 

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“20 Dec 1964

Dear Mrs. Edwards

I enjoyed hearing of your family and Lewes. It truly sounds like a lovely place to live. Thank you.

I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Sincerely, Charlie Bassett.”

I’ve found a lot of interesting letters lately, including this one from Charlie Bassett to Ernestine Edwards of Lewes, Delaware, at Christmas 1964.

From what I can put together, Mrs. Edwards grew up with Ted Freeman in Lewes and was very involved/interested in the space program and honoring the fallen astronauts like Ted. Charlie was one of Ted’s best friends and took care of the Freeman family after the accident, so it makes sense that Mrs. Edwards would try to keep in touch. She wrote poems about Ted and Charlie after their deaths, exchanged letters with their families, and according to the dozens of letters to NASA officials and numerous Congressmen, she was a driving force behind the issuing of a commemorative stamp in honor of Apollo 1 and the others.

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(Credit to Getty)

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(Credit to Retro Space Images)

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NASA Astronaut Group 3 at the press conference announcing their selection, October 18, 1963.

Top row, left to right: Michael Collins, Walt Cunningham, Donn Eisele, Ted Freeman, Dick Gordon, Rusty Schweickart, Dave Scott, and C.C. Williams

Bottom row: Buzz Aldrin, Bill Anders, Charlie Bassett, Alan Bean, Gene Cernan, and Roger Chaffee