Those of us born in the 50’s perferred the first one. 😜 From: Swprograms <swprograms-boun...@hard-core-dx.com> on behalf of Mike Terry <miketerr...@btinternet.com> Reply-To: Mike Terry <miketerr...@btinternet.com>, Shortwave programming discussion <swprograms@hard-core-dx.com> Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 at 10:33 AM To: DXLD <d...@yahoogroups.com>, Yahoogroups <bdxc-n...@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [Swprograms] 60 years in space today!
Corrected header! From: Mike Terry <miketerr...@btinternet.com> To: DXLD <d...@yahoogroups.com>; Yahoogroups <bdxc-n...@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, 4 October 2017, 15:30 Subject: 50 years in space today! In October 1957, amateur radio operators monitored the first signal from a spacefaring civilization —— and it was us. Sputnik 1, the first satellite to orbit the Earth, launched on Oct. 4 of that year from a site in Kazakhstan, then a part of the USSR. That site is now the Baikonur Cosmodrome; at the time it was site 1/5 at the Tyuratam range. Article here: Sputnik's Beeping Legacy: Satellite's Simplicity Made It Iconic 60 Years Ago <https://www.space.com/38357-sputnik-launch-60th-anniversary-space-age.html? utm_source=notification> Sputnik's Beeping Legacy: Satellite's Simplicity Made It Iconic 60 ... In October 1957, amateur radio operators monitored the first signal from a spacefaring civilization — and it was... <https://www.space.com/38357-sputnik-launch-60th-anniversary-space-age.html? utm_source=notification> _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list Swprograms@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to swprograms-requ...@hard-core-dx.com?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
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