Posted on 04/16/2009 7:16:28 PM PDT by airvet
Science Museum to feature Astronaut Scott Carpenter.
Good heavens, how could I miss the date on the promos. I’ll have to get the DVD........... Can’t believe I missed the shows.
Thanks.
There was an excellent BBC series that presented the space race from both the American and Russian point of view. Unfortunately it hasn’t been released in the US DVD format, at least the last time I looked. My father knew some of the people at Redstone Arsenal and I’m sure he would enjoy seeing how they are portrayed in the story.
Redstone...how cool!
I’ll have to watch for that DVD.
I also have a photo of Glenn with an autographed, stamped envelope cancelled on the day of his first flight.
I lived in the same apt. with the first seven's secretary when they first moved to Houston. I met several of them--and Neil Armstrong--long before he walked on the moon.
A neighbor almost ran over Carpenter in the parking lot one day.
Those were the days!
That’s awesome.
Looking forward to the day when men (and women) like those will walk the surface of the Moon and Mars.
The United States and the world learned a lesson after the rise of America............Colonies will leave.
Interstellar Colonies, once established would thrive and have the high ground. Politicians have no desire to fund any organization or colony that could eventually control them. Those colonist would embrace the best values of man and the greatest desire...........Freedom.
Its not worth it in power or investment for current politicians to fund colonies, their power lies in the welfare state.
That’s a masculine trait. We are all women now.
OK FOLKS! HERE IS WHAT WE NEED TO DO
ASK AROUND- I DONT CARE WHO YOU TALK TO...
IF THE JUDGES ARE GOING TO SAY NO ONE SO FAR HAS HAD ‘PROPER STANDING’ TO REQUEST A BIRTH CERTIFICATE, THEN WHO DOES?
LET’s MAKE HIM SH#$$ OR GET OFF THE POT
oops.... wrong thread
About a year ago, I stumbled across a very interesting PBS Nova documentary called "Astrospies", about the manned military space programs of the United States and the Soviet Union. They went over the U.S. military's Manned Orbital Laboratory (MOL) program and the Soviet military's Almaz program. MOL never flew. It was canceled in favor of unmanned spy satellites. Almaz produced the Salyut 3 and Salyut 5 manned space stations.
They interviewed the MOL astronauts and one of the Almaz cosmonauts, and also got a tour of the Almaz training mockup, which is still in perfect condition somewhere in Russia.
I found a link to the program here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/astrospies/program.html
They have an enormous statue to Gagirin in Russia.
I want a waterproof, floating picture of him so I can set it in my toilet and, well, you know . . .
Was a hero, now a zero.
I know what you mean.
try birthing a 10#er out one of your body's orifices and say again that women don't believe in thinking the impossible....geesh....
What choice do they have?
It’s already a great movie. If you haven’t seen “The Right Stuff” you really should.
I have my GI Joe Mercury space capsule put away. But I also have the 45 record that came with it. It’s take-off to splash down of Friendship 7 edited to three minutes. “Zero G and I feel fine!”
“I have a big photo autographed by all seven...14 X 16; also individual autographed photos of all seven.”
Would you be amenable to scanning and sharing it? Hi-def and large size?
I would love to but don't have a scanner or the know how. It's in a big frame...the pic is the one of the seven astronauts in flight gear standing in front of a jet.
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