[amsat-bb] Re: April 12 - Yuri & ARISSat-1
Hi All, http://yurigagarin50.org/history/gagarins-flight has details of the timeline and the events on that day. The website is being built up over the next few weeks with some archive footage and other media stuff! cheers Graham G3VZV - Original Message - From: To: ; "Amsat BB" ; "Rocky Jones" Cc: Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 7:20 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: April 12 - Yuri & ARISSat-1 > If you want to get technical, Gagarin did actually do an EVA of sorts. The > Russians were not sure he'd survive the landing so at 50,000 feet they had > him bail out of the ship and parachute down. They kept this secret for > quite some time as they were afraid that we'd claim some kind of foul and > use that to claim Sheppard was the first true space traveler. I think this > became public knowledge sometime in the '80's after the fall of the USSR. > > So, like I said, "technically" you could call it an EVA, since he left his > ship while it was airborne. > > 73 de > Rick > K7TEJ > > Rocky Jones wrote: >> >> We can celebrate many things about Yuri Gagarin, but one of them is not >> his space walk. >> You probably meant "space flight"...Alex Leoniv did the first space walk >> followed by Ed White.. >> >> As for ArISSat... oh dear. so many thoughts...Robert G. Oler WB5MZO 5N >> something and ARRL AMSAT NARS life member >> >> > From: clintbradf...@mac.com >> > Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 15:53:04 -0800 >> > To: amsat-bb@amsat.org >> > CC: ariss-...@amsat.org >> > Subject: [amsat-bb] April 12 - Yuri & ARISSat-1 >> > >> > Yes, we are all disappointed that the deployment of ARISSat-1 has been >> > delayed - in direct violation of handshakes and written agreements. >> > >> > But that does not mean that we should ignore the historical event that >> > April 12 is bringing us: the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space >> > walk. >> > >> >> > >> > ___ >> > Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the >> > author. >> > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite >> > program! >> > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >> >> ___ >> Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite >> program! >> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > ___ > Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
[amsat-bb] Re: April 12 - Yuri & ARISSat-1
>> ... If you want to get technical, Gagarin did actually do an EVA of sorts. Thanks, Rick, for trying to bail me out ... But it was a mistake/typo on my part ... (grin) Yes, after his 108-minute flight, Gagarin ejecting from the spacecraft at 7,000 metres (23,000 ft), and landing by parachute. Under International Federation of Aeronautics (FAI) qualifying rules for aeronautical records, pilots must both take off and land with their craft, so the Soviets kept the landing procedures secret until 1978, when they finally admitted that Gagarin did not land with his spacecraft. When the flight was publicly announced, after it was successfully completed, it was celebrated around the world as a great triumph, not just for the Soviet Union, but for the world itself, though it once again shocked and embarrassed the United States. Three weeks later, on 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, when he was launched on the Mercury-Redstone 3 suborbital mission, in a spacecraft named Freedom 7. Though he did not achieve orbit, unlike Gagarin he was the first person to exercise manual control over his spacecraft's attitude and retro-rocket firing. The first Soviet cosmonaut to exercise manual control was Gherman Titov in Vostok 2 on 6 August 1961. Almost a year after the Soviets put a human into orbit, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, on 20 February 1962. His Mercury-Atlas 6 mission completed three orbits in the Friendship 7 spacecraft, and splashed-down safely in the Atlantic Ocean, after a tense reentry, due to what falsely appeared from the telemetry data to be a loose heat-shield. /end/ ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
[amsat-bb] Re: April 12 - Yuri & ARISSat-1
If you want to get technical, Gagarin did actually do an EVA of sorts. The Russians were not sure he'd survive the landing so at 50,000 feet they had him bail out of the ship and parachute down. They kept this secret for quite some time as they were afraid that we'd claim some kind of foul and use that to claim Sheppard was the first true space traveler. I think this became public knowledge sometime in the '80's after the fall of the USSR. So, like I said, "technically" you could call it an EVA, since he left his ship while it was airborne. 73 de Rick K7TEJ Rocky Jones wrote: > > We can celebrate many things about Yuri Gagarin, but one of them is not his > space walk. > You probably meant "space flight"...Alex Leoniv did the first space walk > followed by Ed White.. > > As for ArISSat... oh dear. so many thoughts...Robert G. Oler WB5MZO 5N > something and ARRL AMSAT NARS life member > > > From: clintbradf...@mac.com > > Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 15:53:04 -0800 > > To: amsat-bb@amsat.org > > CC: ariss-...@amsat.org > > Subject: [amsat-bb] April 12 - Yuri & ARISSat-1 > > > > Yes, we are all disappointed that the deployment of ARISSat-1 has been > > delayed - in direct violation of handshakes and written agreements. > > > > But that does not mean that we should ignore the historical event that > > April 12 is bringing us: the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space walk. > > > > > > > ___ > > Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > ___ > Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
[amsat-bb] Re: April 12 - Yuri & ARISSat-1
We can celebrate many things about Yuri Gagarin, but one of them is not his space walk. You probably meant "space flight"...Alex Leoniv did the first space walk followed by Ed White.. As for ArISSat... oh dear. so many thoughts...Robert G. Oler WB5MZO 5N something and ARRL AMSAT NARS life member > From: clintbradf...@mac.com > Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 15:53:04 -0800 > To: amsat-bb@amsat.org > CC: ariss-...@amsat.org > Subject: [amsat-bb] April 12 - Yuri & ARISSat-1 > > Yes, we are all disappointed that the deployment of ARISSat-1 has been > delayed - in direct violation of handshakes and written agreements. > > But that does not mean that we should ignore the historical event that April > 12 is bringing us: the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space walk. > > > ___ > Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
[amsat-bb] Re: April 12 - Yuri & ARISSat-1
Typo, of course - THANK YOU for catching that! Clint >> ... space FLIGHT, dude - not a WALK ... ___ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
