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LADEE Now Speaks With A Familiar Voice: Mike Wargo

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
October 16, 2013
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Keith’s note: This audio clip of the late Mike Wargo is aboard LADEE. It was sent back to Earth from the Moon yesterday. Now, if anyone happens to visit the Moon and asks LADEE what it is doing there, Mike will let them know – from lunar orbit.

A Memorial Tribute for Mike Wargo will be held on October 17, 2013 from 11:00-noon with an informal reception to follow. The tribute will be held at the Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington DC. Please note that the Cosmos Club requests that gentlemen wear a jacket and tie. Those who wish to give a gift in Mike’s memory are encouraged to make a donation to MIT Michael J. Wargo for the Department of Materials Science Endowed Fellowship Fund. Contact Bonny Kellerman, bonnyk -at- mit.edu or at 617-253-9722
Crater Wargo, earlier post
NASA Lunar Exploration Analysis Group Statement on the Passing of Dr. Michael Wargo, earlier post
Mike Wargo, earlier post

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.

3 responses to “LADEE Now Speaks With A Familiar Voice: Mike Wargo”

  1. Denniswingo says:
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    Amen brother mike!

  2. Michael Spencer says:
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    Keith: Thanks for your attention to these passing people. Those of us outside NASA know them only through your efforts. And it’s important to put a face on the civil servants who so often are derided.

  3. Cosmos_Mariner says:
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    The celebration at the Cosmos Club was very moving and informative. Some tears but also jokes and laughs from memories of this larger-than-life hale fellow with the big voice. There was mention of astronauts as avatars for we earth-bound space enthusiasts and professionals. Tom Wolf indeed wrote The Right Stuff about the first astronauts but he later wrote A Man in Full about another fellow in the prime of life, an apt description for Mike.