Paul Weitz
Astronaut Paul Weitz Dies at Age 85 – Namesake of Harbor Creek High Stadium, Erie News Now
“Likely the most famous graduate of Harborcreek High School, NASA astronaut Paul J. Weitz has died in Flagstaff, Arizona after a difficult battle with a form of cancer known as MDS or Myelodysplastic Syndromes. Weitz flew into space twice. He served as pilot on the crew of Skylab-2, which launched on May 25 and ended on June 22, 1973. It was the first manned Skylab mission, and activated a 28-day flight, a new world record for a single mission.”
The passing of another great from a great generation. Truly sad.
Keith reminds us when these folks pass, and I truly appreciate it when he does. I don’t know any of them.
But: It’s too easy to criticize NASA or any other agency, especially from a distance, or on someone’s blog, forgetting that an ‘agency’ is really ‘people’ doing the best job they can.
Although I never met the gentleman, I am saddened by his passing. (I did meet six of The Seven, all of whom are now gone.) Is there any indication (does NASA even track such things???) that time in space may have had a link to such a disease, even lo these many years later? Fly high and free, sir!