Posted on 07/20/2020 7:29:52 PM PDT by Perseverando
Robert Goddard, the father of American rocketry, is credited with developing the first liquid fueled rockets, with gyroscope three-axis control providing steerable thrust.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is named for him.
After World War II, Werner von Braun , and 1,600 German scientists, surrendered to the United States in Operation Paperclip, stating:
"I myself, and everybody you see here, have decided to go West ... We knew that we had created a new means of warfare ... We felt that only by surrendering such a weapon to people who are guided by the Bible could such an assurance to the world be best secured."
On October 4, 1957, Soviets launched Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite.
Werner von Braun developed America's first space satellite, Explorer 1, launched on January 31, 1958.
The Space Race was on.
On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, completing one orbit of the Earth in 108 minutes, reaching an altitude of 91 miles.
Less than a month later, May 5, 1961, American Alan Shepard piloted the Mercury Freedom 7 to become the second person in space.
His 15 minute flight reached an altitude of 101.2 nautical miles above the earth.
On February 20, 1962, Astronaut John Glenn piloted the Mercury Friendship 7.
"Godspeed, John Glenn," radioed backup-pilot Scott Carpenter from the blockhouse as the rockets fired up.
Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth, circling 3 times in just under 5 hours, reaching an altitude of 162 nautical miles.
NASA's first manned spaceflight program was Mercury, 1958-1963.
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Then John Glenn became a Democrat and forgot all about God....
There you go. Just bringing us all back down to earth!
What can we say? I guess Glenn went into space and never came back. Or maybe he just remained lost in space?
And a Marine, too? What the heck!
Wasn’t his son Mark, the one who went up in the ill-fated “Jupiter 2” in 1997?
I loved the movie and the book The Right Stuff. Glenn was however, a reliably Democratic vote on every issue.
Yet he became drunk with power.
Yeah, really makes you wonder about people. Glenn had to know about the Russian saturation of the demoKKKrat party and the far leftists in the 'Rat party who hated America even back then.
He resigned from NASA in early 1964 and announced his Senate campaign the next day. He was a filthy democrat from then on.
I remember several of the early astronauts became evangelists. I can’t name them but it was enough to make me think
Also the Japanese flyer who commanded the Pearl Harbor raid, became a Christian after an American POW returned to Japan and handed Fuchida a pamphlet. He became interested, read the entire Bible and became an evangelist.
He was one of the few Japanes pilots to survive the war. Maybe for a reason.
I don’t know anything about the later astronauts.
John Glenn was a card-carrying member of the infamous Keating Five.
I could forgive John Glenn for being a democrat but I’ll never forget or forgive him for bartering his soul for one more ride. At least my children and grandchildren will know the real truth about that “great hero”.
All to cover up for the Clintoon crime family over ChinaGate. The premier crime of that regime.
I still remember meeting Alan Shephard, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Alan Bean (on different occasions)
I’d met Alan first and he most reminded me of the engineers I worked with.
Glenn and McCain
and even after Lightnin’ Hopkins done wrote a song about him and stuff
Lightnin’ Hopkins-Happy Blues For John Glenn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMtsFABg7EM
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