On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Kurt Buff<kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: >> What, no love for 12 April? ;-) > > Well, it was a good day in 1945, but otherwise not so much. Heh.
Well, Yuri G. was the first human in space, and the first manned orbit, even if the USSR lied about the landing. I believe in giving credit where credit is due, and that's a human achievement worth noting. (For those who don't know: The first-generation "Vostok" spacecraft couldn't safely land a human, so they had the pilots eject and parachute down. By international rules, the pilot has to land with his craft, so /Vostok 1/ "didn't count" as a successful flight. So the USSR lied, and said he landed with his craft. The first craft that launched, reached space, and landed with a human aboard was /Freedom 7/, with Alan Shepard -- but he didn't orbit. Spaceflight's a complicated business.) > http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/13/2342220/NASA-Has-the-Lost-Tapes That references the same NASA press release I did. Someone's reading more out of that press release than it actually says. It doesn't mention the lost tapes at all. It states they'll use "what is believed to be the best available broadcast-format copies of the lunar excursion, some of which had been locked away for nearly 40 years." I suppose it could be that NASA is trying to avoid mentioning the lost tapes, but it reads more to me like they're restored some *other* footage. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
