Posted on 05/07/2019 4:46:11 AM PDT by vannrox
Yes, it seems quite aerodynamic. I'm sure it flew like a bird.
Referring to the first flight of Yuri Gagarin meant exactly that, for this person was the first to fly in outer space (and come back alive).
When first noticing the article, I had immediate recollection to the historical event back when it occurred. The US & USSR were in the space race, and the USSR beat us. However we out done them by going to the moon.
Man, you just beat me to it. Yeah, the movie was called ‘Virus’, and it starred Donald Sutherland and Jamie Lee Curtis. It was about a Russian monitoring ship just like this that got its computers infected by an alien program through a space station uplink, and started to make Borg-type slaves out of the crew. Sutherland was the captain of a salvage vessel who was on the verge of blowing his brains out over his finances when his ship encountered the science vessel adrift and claimed salvage rights to it. Shit went downhill real fast from there. Good Saturday night movie fare.
Jamie Lee and Donald must have needed the money really bad when they made that.
And you’re right. It was great Saturday night movie fare.
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Why is this a sad story as indicated in the title? The ship was a very successful ship and it had a lifecycle and the life cycle was finished and it was taken to India and scrapped.
In Russia, satellites track you.
Because All things Russia and China are great, compared to anything the US does.
Interesting story, but only interesting.
Just an aside comment, but the second picture, which purportedly is an IIR with number and title, is totally fake. Besides the fact they would never put all that information about the report on a photograph, the fact that whoever did it misspelled “Cannon” really shoots that down.
That IIR would have been vetted quite a few times before it was published.
Re: “Cannon”
Actually, it says, “35 mm Canon AE-1,” which was a camera from the Canon company in the ‘70s and ‘80s. So it is correctly spelled.
Not disputing the rest of your comment.
I did not see your reply when I was composing my post.
That ship looks like it’s mission was to relay
pictures and accounts of games without the
express written consent of Major League Baseball.
BFL
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Did I miss the mention of how many Commissars that they had to have to stay politically pure?
The Soviets NEVER did anything without Commissars.
I think that's how they were able to beam CCCP1 into the Melonville and Tri-City area.....
That ship looks like it’s mission was to relay
pictures and accounts of games without the
express written consent of Major League Baseball.
Not only that, all NFL games, blackout or not, pay per view...
And NO cable charge, never!!!
That looks like a bad transporter malfunction.
(But yes, I know, sad story that. Pity how they treated their ‘best and brightest’)
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