Sputnik-so what?

[Pedrosa]

Well 50 years ago since the former USSR beat the USA to be the first to launch a space satelite.

Which as you all I am sure agree has led to an amazing number of benefits to the human race based on the continuing efforts made by NASA. Their greatest acomplishment of course was the famous vaudeville lights,miirrors and cojnuring tricks better known as the "lunar landing".;)

"Do you believe they put a man on the moon?"

(REM)

[Daimo]

I still think they did. Whether it happened on that day is a different storey though. Maybe it was all filmed to simply beat the russians to it.....

But they've definatly been there.

Never mind that though, when is someone going to create a technology that enables us to get to our other planets and won't take 5+ years to get to each one :lol:

Wonder how many advances could be made if the USA swapped its military budget with that of NASA's.......

[Daimo]

2 good links though....

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/Previous_images_of_the_Day_Collection_archive_1.ht ml

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

[northwind]

On the one hand, investing in space isn't very productive just now, we're still miles away from orbiting solar satellites, zero gee medication and industry, asteroid mining, and we probably shouldn't be settling other planets when we haven't worked out how to drive this one yet.

On the other hand, spaceships are cool.

[The Basket]

Yes they went to the moon...there is no poof they didn't. Plenty of proof they did.

Sputnik is vital to our modern life and it started here on this day...fifty years ago.

[markmoto]

i dont believe they did at the time i believe it was faked to get one over on the russians but obviously they have been since

[markmoto]

Yes they went to the moon...there is no poof they didn't. Plenty of proof they did.

Sputnik is vital to our modern life and it started here on this day...fifty years ago.

there is no real proof they did?? but evidence to suggest they didnt

[The Basket]

The video footage...the moon rocks...the pix...the moonwalkers themselves...the chuffing huge rockets...radio comms from the surface of the moon...the scientific experiments still on the moon...

Oh yeah...the flag waving bit...damn there goes the farm.

[Richie]

If Wallice and Grommit could make it there, Im sure the Americans could do it.
If they set off at night all you have to do is aim for the big bright circle thingy in the sky.


on a more serious note. Yes they went to the moon.

or did they?

[markmoto]

what about the shadows? each to his own theorys eh

[The Basket]

what about the shadows? each to his own theorys eh

Eh? what has a Cliff Richard's guitar combo got to do with the moon landings?

It is not a theory...it is a fact. I love this stuff and read many books and films both for and against and not a single hoax theory stands up...not a single one.

[northwind]

NASA earned my eternal respect when they said "Yes, some of the photos weren't very good, so we doctored them". But years later the tinfoil hats are still banging on about black crosses on the lenses, etc etc. Personally, I would say that the number of pieces of "evidence" brought forward actually point to it all being true, the reason being, if it were actually faked they would probably have done a better job of it, that was a government with a history of lying very effectively.

[tigersaw]

Buzz lightyear, stretch armstong and tom hanks wasn't it?

[doxiedog]

No need to trick the russans. There moon rocket exploded on the pad, whiping out the cosomodrome and killing a lot of people.

[northwind]

And besides, the Russians had the capacity to observe the moon shots- in fact, you could see the apollo flights with the naked eye in the right circumstances. It was possible to see the orbiter with and without the lander, and later with the ascent stage, with a suitably powerful telescope. How do you fake that?

[Tris]

As somebody said on the telly the other day

"It will be proved when the Chinese get to Tranquility Base in a year or two grab the flag and flog it on E-bay" :D