Russia slaps US for ignoring Gagarin on Spaceflight Day

Associated Press ^ | April 13, 2020

[higgmeister]

And that is a fact. Yuri Gagarin lived that life as far as I have read.

There is a reason that General Stafford and General Leonov became true friends.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Yes I have seen all of our space stuff at the Smithsonian and at the Rocket Center in Huntsville.

I also saw a bunch of the Soviet stuff on display at the USAF Museum in Dayton about 25 years ago.

Our stuff was better, trust me on that.

[higgmeister]

Yuri Gagarin and all of the early Space pioneers had guts to climb on top of any of those rockets.

I was more of a fan of the first two classes of Astronauts in the US. I looked at the Russians as “decent players, but for the wrong team.”

After 50 years, it’s time to start recognizing all of them.

I would love to see the US taking the lead in bringing humans to LEO, to the moon, and beyond.

By RIA Novosti archive, image #888102 / Alexander Mokletsov / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18560984

“Soviet cosmonauts”. Soviet cosmonauts (front row, from left): Vladimir Komarov (Voskhod 1), Yuri Gagarin (Vostok 1), Valentina Tereshkova (Vostok 6), Andriyan Nikolayev (Vostok 3), Konstantin Feoktistov (Voskhod 1), Pavel Belyayev (Voskhod 2), second row: Alexey Leonov (Voskhod 2), Gherman Titov (Vostok 2), Valery Bykovsky (Vostok 5), Boris Yegorov (Voskhod 1), and Pavel Popovich (Vostok 4). Star City.

I can recognize Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Alexey Leonov and Gherman Titov when I see a photograph.

[SunkenCiv]

Instead of Gagarin, we should mention Vladimir Komarov that the all-hat-no-brains militaristists running the USSR launched to his death. And then tell the Russians to shut their mouths.

[higgmeister]

The US space program has been a disaster since they deported the Nazi.

What are you talking about? That's crazy!

[Old Student]

For certain values of better, yes. The Soviets built stuff to be heavy and bullet-proof. And survive operation by peasants. Ours is just a bit different.

[PAR35]

Compare the US manned space program prior to November 28, 1983 (manned travel to the moon and back) to what has happened after that date (inability to launch and recover humans from even low earth orbit).

[higgmeister]

Compare the US manned space program prior to November 28, 1983 (manned travel to the moon and back) to what has happened after that date (inability to launch and recover humans from even low earth orbit).

You typed:

The US space program has been a disaster since they deported the Nazi.

Tell us who the NAZI was that had anything to do with our space program and that you claim was deported?   That never happened.

THE MEMBERS OF NASA'S GERMAN TEAM THAT WORKED FOR VON BRAUN, ASSEMBLED AT A REUNION IN 1987. IMAGE: INTERNET ARCHIVE

Doctor von Braun passed away in 1977. He had been a member of the NAZI SS and was never deported nor did he even face the possibility.

My Dad worked at the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1965 and 1966 in one of the old wood frame Army barracks buildings that had been converted into the computer room complex. He could walk out of the door and look up at Wernher von Braun's penthouse office on the top of Building 4200.

[Nateman]

Orbits naturally pass over all kinds of airspace. Eisenhower wanted the Soviets to establish the safe passage precedent first so that America could use space as a spy platform. He sacrificed the glory and the bragging rights for national defense.

[PAR35]

Arthur Rudolph - a victim of a conspiracy involving Eli Rosenberg of the OSI. The World Jewish Congress targeted him, as well.

[higgmeister]

Arthur Rudolph - a victim of a conspiracy involving Eli Rosenberg of the OSI. The World Jewish Congress targeted him, as well.

In 1961 he finally moved to NASA, once again working for von Braun. He became the assistant director of systems engineering, serving as liaison between vehicle development at Marshall Space Flight Center and the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. He later became the project director of the Saturn V rocket program in August 1963. He developed the requirements for the rocket system and the mission plan for the Apollo program. The first Saturn V launch lifted off from Kennedy Space Center and performed flawlessly on November 9, 1967, Rudolph's birthday.[8] He was then assigned as the special assistant to the director of MSFC in May 1968 and subsequently retired from NASA on January 1, 1969.

You are not to be believed. The man retired before the first Moon Shot, yet in your mind everything went downhill at NASA when he was deported in 1984, sixteen years later. Out of at least 400,000 people that worked to send Apollo 11 to the moon, there was one man who had nothing to do with NASA at the time, and you think "(t)he US space program has been a disaster since they deported the Nazi."

[Seruzawa]

He should have been remembered. There’s no reason to be ill-mannered even if Russians are. He was one brave dude to ride a Russian rocket. First man into space since Gilgamesh.