The most probable origin of NASA moon rocks

(D.K.) wrote:

:What I'd like to know is how widely Soviet space achievements
Sputnik, Gagarin, Leonov, Tereshkova) were popularized in the USA?

Talked about? Sure. Popularized? Not so much.

It didn't help that the Russians didn't allow TV broadcasts for a lot
of this stuff out of fear that something might go wrong.


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The odds get even - The stakes are the same.
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(B2431) wrote:

From: "Snuffy Smith"

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Not at all. Sputnik created the space race...which Russia eventually lost,
but you won't find a single yankee soul who knows who Tereshkova was.


Want to place a bet on that?
She was Gargarin's wife. Oh, and she was the first girl cosmonaut.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired

Speaking of Gagarin, it is rumored that he really wasn't killed in an
accident flying a MiG-15, but was murdered for straying away from the
official Party line. Apparently, he came back from space and realized
that the whole Soviet apparatus was nothing but a Potemkin village and
wasn't afraid to say so.

"Snuffy Smith" wrote:

:"D.K." wrote in message
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: What I'd like to know is how widely Soviet space achievements
: (Sputnik, Gagarin, Leonov, Tereshkova) were popularized in the USA?
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:Not at all. Sputnik created the space race...which Russia eventually lost,
:but you won't find a single yankee soul who knows who Tereshkova was.

Wrong.

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"Snuffy Smith" wrote:
Michael, you have been smoking that Afghani hashish again!

Michael desperately needs to meet Buzz Aldrin's fist!


p.s. Seventy-two years old and still able to clock the lunatic... GO BUZZ!

"Snuffy Smith" wrote:
Not at all. Sputnik created the space race...which Russia eventually lost,
but you won't find a single yankee soul who knows who Tereshkova was.


The Soviet space babe, right? So you're a liar... although one of high principles.

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"Snuffy Smith" wrote:

"D.K." wrote in message
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In article , "usertx" wrote:

"Michael Petukhov" wrote in message
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indeed. although as far as I know USSR also never officialy said these
lunar expeditions were for real. It was ignored in fact. USSR was
perhaps the only country in the world where "US moon landings" were
not broadcasted live on TV.

Michael

US moon landings were broadcasting in USSR! You are just too young to
remember.

Yep, they were broadcast. I vaguely remember it when I was a kid.

What I'd like to know is how widely Soviet space achievements
(Sputnik, Gagarin, Leonov, Tereshkova) were popularized in the USA?

Quite widely, at least for my cohort; I was born in 1950, and was quite
space-mad up through the mid-1970s, at least. As were most of the boys,
and some of the girls, that I went to school with.

Not at all. Sputnik created the space race...which Russia eventually lost,
but you won't find a single yankee soul who knows who Tereshkova was.

Maybe there's something wrong with kids from New England, but every kid
my age certainly knew who Valentina Tereshkova, as well as Gagarin,
Titov, and the rest of the early crowd.

"Gord Beaman" wrote in message
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"Bill Silvey" wrote:

"Bob McKellar" wrote in message

B2431 wrote:

From: Alan Minyard a

NASA even built a "zero-G" test rig to try out the landers controls.
It had a lift engine that could be throttled to exactly balance out
the weight of the rig, so the thrusted operated at "zero-G"

Al Minyard

I think they had more than one. I recall a pilot punching out of one
just before it crashed.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

Fella name of Armstrong.

Probably ruined his career, busting up the gear like that.

Wonder whatever happened to him........

Bob McKellar

Went on to do some flight testing for equipment with some alphabet-soup
organization down on the sleepy part of Florida's east coast, IIRC. Some
government branch or something.

It's rumored after that one incident that only two other guys in the
whole
place would fly with him.

Sad, really.




;-)


Sounds familiar...isn't he the guy who got a little off course
and landed his craft on some little used spot something like a
quarter of a million miles from home?...I hear that he got it
back home ok though, lucky for him.

I think he even got out to ask for directions, but couldn't find anyone.

I guess they just kind of aimed in the general direction of home, and found
it.

Pete

Snuffy Smith wrote:

"Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj" wrote in message
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Bill Silvey wrote:

"Michael Petukhov" wrote in message
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Komrad Mikey, why do you continue on with this outrageous stupidity?

I know your burning hatred for everyone not Russian or who doesn't
adhere to the Soviet point of view clouds your vision quite a bit,
but I *do* find itamazing that you can't accept scientific facts -
that the United States sent not one but three men to the moon,
all of whom returned successfully, several times.
That your nation failed to do so has to be the only reason
for this continued petulence on your part.

If I were you I'd seek psychological help, but not in your
own nation, good lord no!
Please, seek *reliable* mental health care somewhere in the west.

Please, Mr. Silvey.
Why would you want to invite Mr. Petukhov out of Russia.
They have especially well developed psychiatric facilities in Russia,
left over from the soviet system.
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Rostyk

Yeah but Sticky, you know perfectly well...insane people were not
kept in Russian whacko bins. They were for housing handicapped
and the political disbelievers.

Oh sure. But the inmates were still given psychiatric treatments.
By real russian psychiatrists.
And I'd rather see those good doctors continue to practice
in russia, rather than emigrate and find work elsewhere e.g.
in Israel or for the US government.

Snuffy Smith wrote:

"D.K." wrote in message
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In article , "usertx" wrote:

"Michael Petukhov" wrote in message
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indeed. although as far as I know USSR also never officialy said these
lunar expeditions were for real. It was ignored in fact. USSR was
perhaps the only country in the world where "US moon landings" were
not broadcasted live on TV.

Michael

US moon landings were broadcasting in USSR!
You are just too young to remember.

Yep, they were broadcast. I vaguely remember it when I was a kid.

What I'd like to know is how widely Soviet space achievements
(Sputnik, Gagarin, Leonov, Tereshkova) were popularized in the USA?

Not at all. Sputnik created the space race...which Russia eventually lost,
but you won't find a single yankee soul who knows who Tereshkova was.

Well not you obviously!
Though I don't remember Leonov.

"Fred J. McCall" wrote in message
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(D.K.) wrote:

:What I'd like to know is how widely Soviet space achievements
Sputnik, Gagarin, Leonov, Tereshkova) were popularized in the USA?

Talked about? Sure. Popularized? Not so much.

It didn't help that the Russians didn't allow TV broadcasts for a lot
of this stuff out of fear that something might go wrong.


Ever notice any of the parallels between current day China and the old
Soviet Union?

That flu virus that started in China was known for months. The Chinese tried
to black out the world on what was going on. People in China didn't even
know there was a deadly flu bug swirling all around them.

Now we see that they backed out on showing their space launch live.

Then you have all that Falun Gong and Tibet persecution stuff.

The question is how long before China implodes like the Soviet Union????


--
"The odds get even - You blame the game.
The odds get even - The stakes are the same.
You bet your life."
-- "You Bet Your Life", Rush