On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 16:40, Ben Scott<mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Yes, but the one in 1945 is the day FDR died - I just wish it had been about 12 years earlier. Props to the Reds, I suppose, but I didn't see that on TV, so the emotional impact isn't quite as great, nor is the achievment, IMHO, and, since they lied about it, it nullifies a lot of the achievment anyway, in my mind. > (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 That could be - we'll find out more later, I suppose. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
