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50 years ago today

  • 04-10-2007 8:49pm
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    wil
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    Sputnik 1 the first man-made object to orbit earth was launched on October 4, 1957.

    The one that started the space race, and the crisis that inspired the creation of NASA, without all of which we wouldnt hav a forum to go to.:cool:

    A salute.


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    watty
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    Except now we have 5,000 TV channels that aren't worth watching and the Space Race has hardly progressed since 1969.

    Werner von-Braun had the ambition to build a Space Ship to Mars in the 1930s. Unfortunately Hitler was more interested in Europe than Mars. Both the Russian and US space efforts (and ICBM) boosted by engineers and scientists from Werner's team who had alwasy been more interested in Space than WMD.

    Arthur C Clarke was the first to formally publish an article highlighting the value of the 22,500 mile distant equatorial orbit for communications in 1948, so next year is a significant 60th anniversary. At a lower height the period of orbit is less than 24hrs (IIS, Irdium, Spy satellites) and at further distance (Moon) the orbit takes more than 24hrs.

    Survey craft use a polar orbit, thus as the craft orbits the Earth moves and eventually the whole earth surface is covered.


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    wil
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    Magazine on 50yrs of space travel plus 4 episodes of The Planets for anyone interested in todays Sunday Times.
    I have an extra copy of mag if anyone needs it.
    watty wrote:
    Except now we have 5,000 TV channels that aren't worth watching and the Space Race has hardly progressed since 1969.
    Some blame TV, computers and internet. People more interested in exploring virtual world than real one.


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