tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post6730560623525084320..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Today In History: Baby Steps.Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-59154415008276564572007-10-05T15:15:00.000-04:002007-10-05T15:15:00.000-04:00"Um, second suborbital spaceflight, right? I think..."Um, second suborbital spaceflight, right? I think it took only two flights to win the X prize."<BR/><BR/>Two flights within _two_ weeks of each other.<BR/><BR/>First flight was on June 21, 2004. Third flight took the prize; read the linked article ;-).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-71527419942390053612007-10-05T11:02:00.000-04:002007-10-05T11:02:00.000-04:00Ian,How do you think I knew off the top of my head...Ian,<BR/><BR/>How do you think I knew off the top of my head that <I>Columbia</I> first flew on the 30th anniversary of <I>Sputnik</I>? ;-)Cybrluditehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02222195374935367060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-39074522040893234182007-10-04T22:13:00.000-04:002007-10-04T22:13:00.000-04:00I'm just pleased to have lived long enough to see ...I'm just pleased to have lived long enough to see it. After the moon landings dwindled and Skylab was abandodned, I thought we'd never return to the High Frontier in my lifetime.<BR/><BR/> From Suptnik to civilian spaceflight in one lifetime: astounding. And we're not done yet!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-18804035736794673972007-10-04T20:38:00.000-04:002007-10-04T20:38:00.000-04:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ryd_p20XEUAn amazi...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ryd_p20XEU<BR/><BR/>An amazing video done to one of my favorite space songs.<BR/><BR/>(Triggers by Cyberludite's Columbia comment).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-1564108290048193032007-10-04T19:43:00.000-04:002007-10-04T19:43:00.000-04:00We've all heard about the new prize for the first ...We've all heard about the new prize for the first civilian project to put an unmanned rover on the moon that can send back a signal to the team here on Earth, right?<BR/><BR/>I wish I had lots of money to invest in such a project just for the fun of being able to do it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-34471998128406027172007-10-04T19:06:00.000-04:002007-10-04T19:06:00.000-04:00Not nearly as important as View From The Porch rec...Not nearly as important as View From The Porch reclaiming its position as the numba one web purveyor of information about Horrible Screaming Death.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-26933355879856532332007-10-04T14:29:00.000-04:002007-10-04T14:29:00.000-04:00And thirty years after that day, Columbia made her...And thirty years after that day, <I>Columbia</I> made her first flight.Cybrluditehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02222195374935367060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-65461047730423166432007-10-04T13:58:00.000-04:002007-10-04T13:58:00.000-04:00Um, second suborbital spaceflight, right? I think ...Um, second suborbital spaceflight, right? I think it took only two flights to win the X prize.<BR/><BR/>Sputnik brings up an interesting point, where there's not really a clear line between military and civilian spending. It may have been orbiting around the world beeping out the code for HI, but what it was really saying was "we can drop a nuke anywhere on the planet we wish".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-66710732008438241222007-10-04T11:37:00.000-04:002007-10-04T11:37:00.000-04:00One of my earliest memories is of my father's exci...One of my earliest memories is of my father's excitement over those silly <I>beeps</I> that our local radio station broadcast in covering the news. Of course, given his pinko politics, he was no doubt jazzed that the Soviets had done it, but I didn't pick up on that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com