Fifty years ago today
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@Rancid-Schnitzel Owned pretty badly here;
"USSR and post-Soviet Russia combined? 4 women astronauts since 1963. The USA? Almost 50, including all these firsts: mother, Chinese-born woman, payload specialist, married couple, black woman, hispanic woman, shuttle pilot and commander, ISS commander, and teacher. Also oldest. "
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@Kirwan said in Fifty years ago today:
@Rancid-Schnitzel Owned pretty badly here;
"USSR and post-Soviet Russia combined? 4 women astronauts since 1963. The USA? Almost 50, including all these firsts: mother, Chinese-born woman, payload specialist, married couple, black woman, hispanic woman, shuttle pilot and commander, ISS commander, and teacher. Also oldest. "
Yep, but since when has the NYT allowed facts to get in the way of a good virtue signal. Should also be noted that the USSR never actually put anyone on the moon.
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Yeah those whacky misunderstood soviets , this podcast gives a rundown on how awful their space program was . Basically the cosmonaut was given a craft so badly made he refused to go up in it and he was told if he didn’t they’d make his friend Gagarin go up instead . He died cursing them over the radio and there’s a picture of the worst open casket funeral ever in the link.
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@jegga the article you posted has a link to an update that refutes / questions a lot of the original.
The US were similarly cowboy-ish. I've just finished listening to 13 minutes to the moon and multiples sources are quoted as saying Apollo1 should never have flown although ironically the disaster was the reality check the program needed
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@jegga said in Fifty years ago today:
Yeah those whacky misunderstood soviets , this podcast gives a rundown on how awful their space program was . Basically the cosmonaut was given a craft so badly made he refused to go up in it and he was told if he didn’t they’d make his friend Gagarin go up instead . He died cursing them over the radio and there’s a picture of the worst open casket funeral ever in the link.
Just read that and there's a link in the first paragraph that basically calls out the whole thing as bulshit.
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@dogmeat said in Fifty years ago today:
@jegga the article you posted has a link to an update that refutes / questions a lot of the original.
The US were similarly cowboy-ish. I've just finished listening to 13 minutes to the moon and multiples sources are quoted as saying Apollo1 should never have flown although ironically the disaster was the reality check the program needed
I listened to a podcast last year from someone from the former Soviet union and the original story was the one they broadcast. Being the Soviet union its hard to know the exact truth from the article and the updates and a lot of it on both sides is word of mouth .
Here's the link to the podcast, its a decent rundown of the space race from the Russian side. He also does some interesting stuff about Russian elections and life in the Soviet union. http://theeasternborder.lv/podcast/episode-12-the-red-space-race/
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Recorded a Ch4 docu on the moon landings last night, just watched it. Oh simply breath taking, how I wish I had been alive back then! It brought a tear to my eye, all of the world watching an amazing achievement together... I wish I could witness something of that magnitude. Nowadays when all the world's attention is on one thing it is terror related, and filtered through 100 different channels first.
Super grateful for all we have tech wise but I am such an old soul I long for a simpler time, a summer of love... maybe get my first real six-string, buy it at the five-and-dime, I'd play it 'til my fingers bled.... -
The Moon Landing Inspired Pink Floyd’s Most Overlooked Song
A bluesy, atmospheric piece that the band improvised live on the air during the Apollo 11 mission deserves to be more than a footnote of musical history.
For seven and a half minutes on the night of July 20, 1969, Pink Floyd took thousands of BBC viewers to the moon. Of course, two men were already there: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the Apollo 11 astronauts who became the first human beings to set foot on the lunar surface. However, the members of Pink Floyd—David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright—weren’t using science, calculus, and technology to transport people through space on that fateful evening. They were using music, specifically an improvised and largely forgotten song called “Moonhead.”
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Quite an achievement considering how low their space agency program budget is (1.8B per year)
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@Stockcar86 said in Fifty years ago today:
Quite an achievement considering how low their space agency program budget is (1.8B per year)
I assume they've been putting rockets into orbit for a while? I assume they haven't sent a man into orbit?
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Satellites only. I can't remember when, but there was a good podcast I listened to about the India space program recently - it was probably on Main Engine Cut Off