Re: Happy Aniversaary


"Ye Old One" <usenet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:43:31 -0500, "Suzanne" <shiloh7@xxxxxxxxx>
enriched this group when s/he wrote:

Dr. Werhner Von Braun who is now
noted as being the Father of the Space Program

No. People who know and understand the space programme will refer to
Sergei Korolyov by that title. However, he himself, looked to
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky as the father of the space programme.

The textbooks in the schools in America recognize
Von Braun as being the Father of *our* (America's)
space program. That doesn't mean that they don't
recognize other milestones and achievement by
others in the realm of space travel. We all know that
the Russians had Sputnik first. I remember when that
happened. I was walking home from school at college,
and I passed by a news stand and saw a headline that
read "Russians put up SPUTNIK." I thought "A
Whatnik?" and I read what the article said. I could
hardly believe it. It was an awesome realization.
People that were born after that time don't probably
realize how astounding these kinds of things were
to us and how they affected us. You know it was like
several days passed and it still was affecting me as
being quite astonishing.

Suzanne

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