Caroll Spinney, Big Bird on 'Sesame Street' Who Once Considered a Shuttle Flight, Dies at 85

Monday, December 9, 2019 - 15:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Carroll Spinney, the puppeteer who died on Sunday at age 85, didn't make it to space because Big Bird was too tall for the space shuttle.

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