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1 posted on 01/27/2011 6:30:44 AM PST by SlowBoat407
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To: SlowBoat407

In response to Sputnik Kennedy put up well defined goal - Send a man to the moon and return him safely to earth by the end of the decade.

That is called a specification.

Obama put up a nebulous smoke cloud - stimulate innovation.

That is called waving your hands around.


2 posted on 01/27/2011 6:37:31 AM PST by DManA
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I've heard speculation that our delay was intentional. We wanted to establish a precedent of free passage over other countries in space - essentially national sovereignty only goes to the edge of the atmosphere rather than all the way to infinity. We could do that by allowing a Soviet satellite to orbit above us without asserting our rights to the space above the US as we would if a Soviet aircraft crossed our airspace.

I don't know whether it is true or not, or just some rationalization after the first round of the space race.

3 posted on 01/27/2011 6:43:05 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Washington is finally rid of the Kennedies. Free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.)
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To: SlowBoat407

Obama defines “Sputnik Moment” as opportunity to spend lots of money over a long period for very vague goals.


8 posted on 01/27/2011 6:46:51 AM PST by PGR88
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Our “Sputnik moment” was the (near) collapse of Greece and Ireland.


10 posted on 01/27/2011 6:51:00 AM PST by Andy from Chapel Hill
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I really think Obama meant to say "Dupnik Moment"...


13 posted on 01/27/2011 6:55:17 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: SlowBoat407

Our next ‘Sputnik Moment’ will be when a EMP is burst over our continent and it will be called a “WTF Moment”.


14 posted on 01/27/2011 7:01:39 AM PST by AU72
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Four months later, after numerous launch vehicle explosions on the pad and in mid-flight,...

Thanks for posting that. Many Americans, and FReepers too, are unaware of the frustrations we endured watching or reading about failure after failure. It was bad enought that adolescents had a joke about it.

Q. How do they count backwards at Cape Canaveral?

A. 5...4...3...2...1...Oh...$#@!, back to the drawing boards.

16 posted on 01/27/2011 7:11:25 AM PST by Roccus (Joe Biden.....America's only living brain donor.)
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To: SlowBoat407

That “no science” statement by the Fearless Leader was totally wrong, ignorant and stupid. Whatta Zer0.


20 posted on 01/27/2011 7:32:25 AM PST by Paladin2
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The Sputnik comments shows his mentality and values is not that of an American, but rather someone raised abroad.


25 posted on 01/27/2011 8:09:21 AM PST by MNDude
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-mZ9pKvCmk

One of the best Leslie Fish songs.


28 posted on 01/27/2011 11:44:20 AM PST by DBrow
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