To: cunning_fish
But...NASA doesn't celebrate Al Shepard day.
Guess they're embarrassed by an American military guy being - aw shucks - the second man in space.
But never mind. Gagarin is the man, and Soyuz is the vehicle.
And Americans are stranded on Earth, and gotta pay Putin to get to space.
Poor dears.
7 posted on
04/12/2013 2:40:02 AM PDT by
Regulator
To: Regulator
Alan Shepard day would be May 5. That would conflict with the celebration of Cinco de Mayo. This was a battle that the Mexicans won in a war that they lost. We might have intervened, but in 1862, we had our own problems.
We should be
launching crews to the ISS by 2017, only 4 years from now.
8 posted on
04/12/2013 3:55:57 AM PDT by
jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
To: Regulator
But...NASA doesn't celebrate Al Shepard day. Guess they're embarrassed by an American military guy being - aw shucks - the second man in space. If it weren't for Yuri, NASA wouldn't have received a blank check to go to the Moon, and later develop the Shuttle and the ISS. Yuri was very photogenic and the Soviets sent him on a successful PR tour of the world, which convinced our politicians that they had to do something to top the Soviets.
13 posted on
04/12/2013 9:08:13 PM PDT by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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