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It’s been 50 years since John Glenn circled the Earth

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  • #2
    Beeker
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,643 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beeker


    eilejh wrote: »
    Lots of photos here in this article......


    http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2012/02/its-been-50-years-since-john-glenn-circled-the-earth/

    Hard to imagine it has been 50 years, so much has happened in the Space programme since, Apollo, Skylab, ASTP, Shuttle, ISS, International cooperation, Chinese emergence into human flight. I wonder what the next generation will look back at on the 100th anniversary, will we have moved on any further? will we have returned to the Moon, stepped on Mars?


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
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    heres an Origanal Newsreel of the time ;) Enjoy.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY87RTXzA04&feature=player_embedded


  • #4
    fifilarue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭fifilarue


    that was brilliant Jake1-thanks for putting it up.


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
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    fifilarue wrote: »
    that was brilliant Jake1-thanks for putting it up.

    Nice lil bit o' Nostalgia :)


  • #6
    eilejh
    Registered Users Posts: 293 ✭✭eilejh


    That newsreel seems like it's out of the 1940's lol. But just think-just a few years later (7?) a man was on the moon! That seems impossible............What an amazing feat of drive and technology. How can we now stand still?


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
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    eilejh wrote: »
    That newsreel seems like it's out of the 1940's lol. But just think-just a few years later (7?) a man was on the moon! That seems impossible............What an amazing feat of drive and technology. How can we now stand still?

    We are a lucky generation. Who knows how far we will go. :)


  • #8
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,313 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Jake1 wrote: »
    We are a lucky generation. Who knows how far we will go. :)

    Well in terms of manned flight, nowhere beyond Earth orbit in the past 40 years (Apollo 17, 1972).


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