Re: [Vo]:First Manned Rocket

2012-05-19 Thread Jouni Valkonen
On 16 May 2012, at 14:31, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Did the first manned rocket launch in 1961 carrying Yuri Gagarin? Or did it launch in 1933 carrying Otto Fischer? http://io9.com/5908728/did-the-germans-launch-a-crewed-rocket-into-space-in-1933 Actually, Yuri Gagarin was

[Vo]:First Manned Rocket

2012-05-16 Thread Terry Blanton
Did the first manned rocket launch in 1961 carrying Yuri Gagarin? Or did it launch in 1933 carrying Otto Fischer? http://io9.com/5908728/did-the-germans-launch-a-crewed-rocket-into-space-in-1933 T

Re: [Vo]:First Manned Rocket

2012-05-16 Thread Robert Lynn
They were 400 years late to the party. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Hu On 16 May 2012 12:31, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: Did the first manned rocket launch in 1961 carrying Yuri Gagarin? Or did it launch in 1933 carrying Otto Fischer?

Re: [Vo]:First Manned Rocket

2012-05-16 Thread LORENHEYER
Actually our common 'monkey' ancestors were test piloting rockets first. They were millions of years ahead of us. I guess the 'old saying that it's so easy a human can do it was true after all. Did the first manned rocket launch in 1961 carrying Yuri Gagarin? Or did it launch in 1933

Re: [Vo]:First Manned Rocket

2012-05-16 Thread Harry Veeder
since this story mentions the hollow earth theory, I would like to say that I think the theory is a unconscious comment on galilean relativity (the central myth of modern physics) where the relativity motion is based on observations made inside windowless room. Harry On Wed, May 16, 2012 at