[eilejh]

Lots of photos here in this article......


http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2012...led-the-earth/

[Beeker]

Originally Posted by eilejh

Lots of photos here in this article......


http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2012...led-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?

[Jake1]

heres an Origanal Newsreel of the time Enjoy.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY87R...layer_embedded

[fifilarue]

that was brilliant Jake1-thanks for putting it up.

[Jake1]

Originally Posted by fifilarue

that was brilliant Jake1-thanks for putting it up.

Nice lil bit o' Nostalgia

[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?

[Jake1]

Originally Posted by 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?

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

[coylemj]

Originally Posted by Jake1

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).