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Offline Cripplecreek

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NASA Golden Age of Space Travel
« on: February 14, 2017, 12:30:55 am »
Just a picture but you'll have to go to the site for full sized but its a biggun.

All of the early manned missions and astronauts. Personally I don't like calling it the "Golden Age" of spaceflight.



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Re: NASA Golden Age of Space Travel
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2017, 01:54:26 am »
The politicians that stopped NASA from continuing the progress it made from the Moon landing..


1. Richard Nixon
2. Jimmy Carter (He almost killed the space program)
3. Fritz Mondale
4. Bill Clinton (he gutted the space program which lead to the Columbia disaster).


I know I'm missing some names.. 
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Re: NASA Golden Age of Space Travel
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2017, 01:57:27 am »
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Re: NASA Golden Age of Space Travel
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2017, 02:24:26 am »
Quote from: kevindavis on February 14, 2017, 01:54:26 am
The politicians that stopped NASA from continuing the progress it made from the Moon landing..


1. Richard Nixon
2. Jimmy Carter (He almost killed the space program)
3. Fritz Mondale
4. Bill Clinton (he gutted the space program which lead to the Columbia disaster).


I know I'm missing some names..

Deke Slayton was one of the first Astronauts chosen and finally flew on the last Apollo mission which was little more than a PR flight.
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Re: NASA Golden Age of Space Travel
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2017, 02:28:58 am »
Quote from: Cripplecreek on February 14, 2017, 02:24:26 am
Deke Slayton was one of the first Astronauts chosen and finally flew on the last Apollo mission which was little more than a PR flight.


It seemed like a PR Stunt..
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Re: NASA Golden Age of Space Travel
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2017, 02:41:00 am »
Quote from: kevindavis on February 14, 2017, 02:28:58 am

It seemed like a PR Stunt..

The last manned mission beyond earth orbit was in 1972.

That sucks.
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Re: NASA Golden Age of Space Travel
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2017, 02:42:03 am »
Quote from: Cripplecreek on February 14, 2017, 02:41:00 am
The last manned mission beyond earth orbit was in 1972.

That sucks.


Big time..
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Re: NASA Golden Age of Space Travel
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2017, 03:28:18 am »
Quote from: Cripplecreek on February 14, 2017, 02:41:00 am
The last manned mission beyond earth orbit was in 1972.

That sucks.

I agree. But it was the last manned mission beyond Low earth orbit. Until they performed their lunar orbit insertion, they were still in orbit of the earth. Then they were in orbit of the moon. But when the astronauts landed on the moon, they again were in earth orbit.
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Re: NASA Golden Age of Space Travel
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2017, 05:18:17 am »
Quote from: Cripplecreek on February 14, 2017, 12:30:55 am
Personally I don't like calling it the "Golden Age" of spaceflight.

But in a lot of ways it was.  Look at the huge leaps in brand new math, techniques, technology ... all in about 10 years.  Four completely different manned spacecraft.  Yeah, it was a golden age.
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Re: NASA Golden Age of Space Travel
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2017, 05:35:16 am »
Look at the first six Apollo missions: all but one orbited the Moon, and two of them landed on the Moon... all within 13 months.

During the entire history of the shuttle, was there ever a 13-month period that featured six launches...? And of course, the shuttle never left low-Earth orbit.  :shrug:
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Re: NASA Golden Age of Space Travel
« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2017, 07:21:08 am »
Quote from: kevindavis on February 14, 2017, 01:54:26 am
The politicians that stopped NASA from continuing the progress it made from the Moon landing..


1. Richard Nixon
2. Jimmy Carter (He almost killed the space program)
3. Fritz Mondale
4. Bill Clinton (he gutted the space program which lead to the Columbia disaster).


I know I'm missing some names..

William Proxmire. Don't forget that bleep.
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Re: NASA Golden Age of Space Travel
« Reply #11 on: February 14, 2017, 05:02:00 pm »
Very cool picture. I agree about the name. I hope the Golden age is yet to come.
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Re: NASA Golden Age of Space Travel
« Reply #12 on: February 14, 2017, 05:10:48 pm »
Quote from: Idaho_Cowboy on February 14, 2017, 05:02:00 pm
Very cool picture. I agree about the name. I hope the Golden age is yet to come.

May 5th 1961 Alan Sheppard was the first American in space. It was a 15 minute suborbital flight.

July 20 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

Its hard to imagine what we would have achieved if we had kept up that rate of advancement.


Actuaklly if you look at the Apollo missions themselves, they had a pretty good upward curve going.
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Re: NASA Golden Age of Space Travel
« Reply #13 on: February 14, 2017, 07:02:35 pm »
Quote from: Cripplecreek on February 14, 2017, 05:10:48 pm
May 5th 1961 Alan Sheppard was the first American in space. It was a 15 minute suborbital flight.

July 20 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon.


5/5/1961 to 7/20/1969 = 2998 days. NASA puts a man on the moon.

1/20/2008 to 1/20/2017 = 2922 days. Obama puts men in women's restrooms.
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Re: NASA Golden Age of Space Travel
« Reply #14 on: February 14, 2017, 07:10:01 pm »
Quote from: kevindavis on February 14, 2017, 02:42:03 am

Big time..

Strictly speaking, going to the moon is still in earth's orbit.
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Re: NASA Golden Age of Space Travel
« Reply #15 on: February 15, 2017, 02:01:35 am »
Quote from: EC on February 14, 2017, 07:21:08 am
William Proxmire. Don't forget that bleep.


Aah yes the guy who loves to spend money on BS Projects..
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Re: NASA Golden Age of Space Travel
« Reply #16 on: February 15, 2017, 03:03:25 pm »
Quote from: kevindavis on February 15, 2017, 02:01:35 am

Aah yes the guy who loves to spend money on BS Projects..

Well, wouldn't it be more of CS projects for him? You don't need many bulls in a dairy herd......In fact, most dairy farmers don't keep a bull any more, they use artificial insemination.
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