NASA marks anniversary of -- huh? Are they SERIOUS?!

See nasawatch.com for Friday's ISS On-Orbit Status Report,
which celebrates the anniversary of a very unusual event --
what's going on there?

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=19682

I guess they're just happy it was the LAST one -- that may
well be worth celebrating, after all.... I guess.

Jim Oberg wrote:

See nasawatch.com for Friday's ISS On-Orbit Status Report,
which celebrates the anniversary of a very unusual event --
what's going on there?

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=19682

I guess they're just happy it was the LAST one -- that may
well be worth celebrating, after all.... I guess.



They should have shot it toward London just for old time's sake.

Pat

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Jim Oberg wrote:

See nasawatch.com for Friday's ISS On-Orbit Status Report,
which celebrates the anniversary of a very unusual event --
what's going on there?

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=19682

I guess they're just happy it was the LAST one -- that may
well be worth celebrating, after all.... I guess.



They should have shot it toward London just for old time's sake.

Pat


Ah, nostalgia...

"Jim Oberg" wrote in message
...
See nasawatch.com for Friday's ISS On-Orbit Status Report,
which celebrates the anniversary of a very unusual event --
what's going on there?

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=19682

I guess they're just happy it was the LAST one -- that may
well be worth celebrating, after all.... I guess.

NASA clearly believes the fact that von Braun worked for NASA far outweighs
the fact of his previous career helping Hitler fight an illegal war.

"Jim Oberg" wrote in message
...
See nasawatch.com for Friday's ISS On-Orbit Status Report,
which celebrates the anniversary of a very unusual event --
what's going on there?

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=19682

I guess they're just happy it was the LAST one -- that may
well be worth celebrating, after all.... I guess.

We still have the craters from two of the beasts where I live (Cranham,
Essex, UK), one is mostly hidden in undergrowth not half a mile from my home
and the other is now a pond in part of a golf course (the original crater
was 41 ft diameter and 14 ft deep!).

Adam

Gene Cash wrote:

"Our main goal for a long time was to make it more dangerous to be in
the target area than to be part of the test crew." -- Wernher von Braun


Wasn't the CEP of the V2 something like a 10-mile circle?

Might as well stand in the bulls eye. ;-)

Rusty

Rusty wrote:

Wasn't the CEP of the V2 something like a 10-mile circle?
Might as well stand in the bulls eye. ;-)




Somewhere I've got this- IRRC, it's something like an ovoid around eight
miles wide by twelve miles long with the the long axis being aligned
with the direction of approach.
Considering its total range, this really sucks- especially considering
that von Braun and the crew told the Wermacht that the accuracy would be
around _one hundred meters_ of the aiming point.

Pat

There once was a plane called the V-2,
To pilot which one did not need to.
It went up, it came down
Leaving holes in the ground
And dead bodies and blood and debris, too.
--scott


--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Neil Gerace wrote:
"Jim Oberg" wrote in message
...
See nasawatch.com for Friday's ISS On-Orbit Status Report,
which celebrates the anniversary of a very unusual event --
what's going on there?

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=19682

I guess they're just happy it was the LAST one -- that may
well be worth celebrating, after all.... I guess.

NASA clearly believes the fact that von Braun worked for NASA far outweighs
the fact of his previous career helping Hitler fight an illegal war.


And in that they are correct.

And, as discussed here a few years ago, it wasted so much
Third Reich resources it shortened the war a year and saved
tens of millions of lives -- at the cost in other people's lives,
both at the receiving end and in the slave camps that built
components. A hideous calculus of casualties -- but in
cold-blooded terms, a net BIG plus for the good guys.
von Braun did more to aid the Allied victory than any other
German under Hitler, don't you agree?




"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
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There once was a plane called the V-2,
To pilot which one did not need to.
It went up, it came down
Leaving holes in the ground
And dead bodies and blood and debris, too.
--scott