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Old May 22nd 06, 02:59 PM posted to sci.space.station,sci.space.history
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"Jim Oberg" wrote in message
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The wording is ambiguous as to what they
are claiming. Of course if they limit the definition
to exactly what they have just accomplished,
it will ALWAYS be 'first'.


Isn't that the first rule of writing for a NASA PAO? Everything NASA does
is a first in space; just make sure you word the claim correctly.

Jeff
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety"
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Old May 31st 06, 01:51 AM posted to sci.space.station,sci.space.history
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"Jim Oberg" wrote in message
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Right -- as if Jack Lousma hadn't piloted the backpack maneuvering unit
around the in side of Skylab in, oh, about August 1973.

NASA either start getting some good out of its history office
and stop making such ignorant 'first ever' claims, that only insult
the achievements of past generations.



International Space Station Status Report: SS06-024
Friday May 19, 5:52 pm ET

WASHINGTON, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- In space this week, a satellite flew
within a satellite. International Space Station Flight Engineer Jeff
Williams "piloted" a unique spacecraft in three dimensions for the first
time around the pressurized Destiny module. The demonstration tested the
basics of formation flight and autonomous docking that could be useful in
future multiple spacecraft formation flying.



See, and I'm reading this simply as this is the first time that this
particular test was done and that there will be future tests.

Not that it was "first" in any significant manner.






 




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