ISS-104-Soyuz records

Danny Dot wrote:

The "stunt" issue is HUGE in the early Russian space program. Most of what
they did was a stunt to beat us. And they were GREAT at this.
1. First satillite in orbit
2. First man in space
3. First woman in space
4. First more than one man (they sent 3 just to send a message)
5. First space walk



First live animal in orbit!
First dead animal in orbit!
First animals to circumnavigate the Moon!
First dead animals to circumnavigate the Moon!
First space station crew!
First dead space station crew!
SOCIALISM MARCHES FORWARD!

At the last minute we changed Apollo
8 from Low Earth Orbit to around the moon because we knew they were close to
sending a man to the moon (around the moon) before us.



COMRADE! The Soviet Union sent a turtle around the Moon before Apollo 8!
"A turtle?" you ask...
You bet your sweet ass it was a turtle!
http://images.google.com/images?q=tb...urtle_home.gif

Pat

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
...

First live animal in orbit!
First dead animal in orbit!
First animals to circumnavigate the Moon!
First dead animals to circumnavigate the Moon!
First space station crew!
First dead space station crew!
SOCIALISM MARCHES FORWARD!

The US program wasn't much better in this regard. In the news, each
superpower hyped its own successes while hyping the failure of the other.

Jeff
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety"
- B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)