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Your favourite astronaut
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Also Lovell, Conrad, Barbara Morgan and although she never made it into space - Christa McAuliffe. |
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Also Lovell, Conrad, Barbara Morgan and although she never made it into space - Christa McAuliffe. |
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I think that putting a Chinese astronaut in orbit was more of a technical demonstration than a regular plan. The next stage for the Chinese is to improve its range of orbital satellites and then to send probes to the moon. China seems really keen on getting to the moon (probably in part for that Fusion reactor material Helium 3).
That's triggered the Americans ambition to go back to the moon. Us Europeans are sending probes and of course there is the privately run Google Lunar X Prize competition, which will lead to even more lunar probes. I think the first permanent lunar base is not far away now! ![]() But back to China. At the moment, their space programme seems a bit of a closed shop but the huge costs involved in permanent space stations, moon bases and missions to Mars and the asteroids and beyond will require multinational funding and that means opening up its science and technology programmes to the rest of the world and working with the rest of the world. |
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Mike Mullane shuttle astronaut and author of Riding Rockets. Worth a read to get an insider's view on the shuttle generation.
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Pete Conrad was supposed to be the big personality of the Apollo era wasn't he.
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Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me.
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Yeah he was! A real character, the third man to walk on the moon. His words when he stepped onto the Moon...
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Are there no scheduled manned flights?
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Can I third the love for Mike Mullane?
Riding Rockets is a truely awesome book. I recommend it to everyone reading this thread. It's hilarious and brutally honest. |
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What do people think about Britain entering the manned space programme? A chance for some of the younger folk here to get into space without paying!
![]() I agree with the government that space related science and technologies could prove invaluable for those companies that take part in them so let's get our own more involved. |
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Anyone use the "Astronomy picture of the day" site? I've had some amazing pics from there.
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Anyone use the "Astronomy picture of the day" site? I've had some amazing pics from there.
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Yeah he was! A real character, the third man to walk on the moon. His words when he stepped onto the Moon...
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I do believe that Tom Stafford and Eugene Cernan put on one of the most colourful performances in "Snoopy". (The lunar module in Apollo X).
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I do believe that Tom Stafford and Eugene Cernan put on one of the most colourful performances in "Snoopy". (The lunar module in Apollo X).
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He did that purely because a reporter did not believe that the astronauts could say what they liked when they stepped on to the moon. He said to the reporter well "I will say......" and so he did.
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Yeah I know. He was still a legend though.
I actually was in the same room as Al Bean in September 2006. |
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Really? I always thought Cernan was quite a serious guy, a bit like Frank Borman.
Stafford very much wanted to fly again and of course did so on Apollo/Soyus. |
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I remember watching that as a boy. Leonov and Stafford shaking hands if my memory serves me right.
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I remember watching that as a boy. Leonov and Stafford shaking hands if my memory serves me right.
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I remember watching that as a boy. Leonov and Stafford shaking hands if my memory serves me right.
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What do people think about Britain entering the manned space programme? A chance for some of the younger folk here to get into space without paying!
![]() But that's what we need ENTHUSIASM - and there is/was (as most will know) a British Astronaut! I'm sure there is latent interest, but so many folks only associate "science" with the "evils of the world". Can you imagine a program like "Tomorrows World" suceeding as peaktime TV these days? Quote:
I agree with the government that space related science and technologies could prove invaluable for those companies that take part in them so let's get our own more involved.
Betta get in quick, lads and lasses! Especially considering massive cuts to ESTABLISHED UK science (esp. astronomy) budgets. Sadly UK involvement in so many current and future international collaborations seems doubtful. Not to mention redundancies at home. But hardly unque on the part of THIS government. The UK (unlike most EU countries) never seems to value or promote research and enterprise in these areas... Ah, what might have been... (British and still WORKING!) ![]() http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero_X-3 Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow |
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Lenov was great. He was the very first spacewalker on Voshhod II in 1965.
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Have you read the book that he and Dave Scott wrote? It's a good read.
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