Astronaut Brady's Death Stuns Area

[RebelOne]

Astronaut Brady's Death Stuns Area

BY JOHN CHAPPELL: STAFF WRITER

Astronaut Charles E. Brady, formerly of Robbins, is dead at 54.
His home town is in mourning over the loss of one of its most illustrious sons: an Eagle Scout, an athlete, a doctor, a Blue Angel, and a space traveler. A huge mural depicting Brady and the Space Shuttle Columbia overlooks the railroad across from the Old Elise Depot and the town hall.

Now the town is puzzled and saddened by reports of the circumstances of his death.

According to Chuck McCarty, a dispatcher with the Sheriff's Office in San Juan County, Wash., Brady died of apparently self-inflicted wounds.

Sheriff's deputies had responded to a call from a home on Orcas Island Sunday afternoon, July 23.

When they arrived at the scene, they spoke to a woman, Susan Oseth, and a 3- or 4-year-old girl.

Jon Zerby, undersheriff of San Juan County, said Brady and Oseth lived together on Orcas Island. Zerby said Brady was divorced.

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[w4rma]

1. link

http://www.thepilot.com/stories/20060727/news/local/072806Brady.html

[WePurrsevere]

2. What a senseless loss of a life that seems on the surface to have been...

well lived. Whether it was truly "self-inflicted" or it's found out later that it was not... may his soul find peace.

His NASA bio: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/brady.html

[Delphinus]

3. My conspiracy side,

especially with NASA, makes me think he saw something about other worldly life and couldn't stand not telling people about it.

[Frank Cannon]

4. According to one obit I'd read, he'd been ill

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/07/27/1/?nc=1

That's not so unusual.

[Ferretherder]

5. My completely speculative, 'what if' side seconds that notion.

n/t