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To: marcusmaximus

Disappointed. I remember Sputnik...I was 16.


11 posted on 08/20/2023 5:15:28 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Sacajaweau

Do you remember the Apollo missions?


13 posted on 08/20/2023 5:17:27 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Sacajaweau

I also remember Sputnik. Believe it or not, I watched from our backyard as it flew overhead, and the guy who pointed it out to us was Steven Spielberg’s father.

He was working for my father at the time at the General Electric computer division in Pheonix (which was later sold off to Honeywell). My father had him over for dinner, and I remember him telling us that Sputnik was about 2 feet in size, and that we would see it when it passed overhead at a specific time (probably about 9:30 pm).

I remember thinking that was going to be impossible since it was 100 miles up in space. But sure enough at 9:30, there it was, moving pretty fast across the sky!

I’d love to run into Steven someday and tell him that story.


35 posted on 08/20/2023 5:49:29 AM PDT by pelican001
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To: Sacajaweau

WHY? Normal, decent people don’t wish for murderous despot dicatorships like Putin’s regime to succeed.


96 posted on 08/20/2023 7:07:08 AM PDT by Vaden (Western civ is gone...)
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