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In Reply to: Re: nope posted by john dem on November 29, 2001 at 12:20:40:
Hi,
Not so fast, this was the 50's, the tech was there, the interest was not. I think contempt is pretty presumptous; more likely he needed the money. Funny thing is, if you worded your contempt slightly differently; I would have no quarrel with it. Everyone once in a while, you find little bits of the real thing.
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When exactly was Sputnick Late ?When exactly did any nation have a rocket capable of delivering a payload accurately into an orbit of some 35000 kms ?
It was attempted in 1963 with USA's Syncom 1- which failed.
Hi,
Ike had a standing order, nothing goes into space. The feeling was that we could have done it, might have taken a few tries. In any case, this is just an example; and apparently not all that good a one. If you can't imagine doing it, you won't.
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