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Old 09-12-2010, 03:10 PM   #21
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Old 09-12-2010, 03:38 PM   #22
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OOH! OOH!
Mercury 1 !???



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Old 09-13-2010, 10:05 AM   #24
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The first american was Kittenger, I think that is his name. He rode up in a helium balloon and parachuted to earth. He was also the first human to go supersonic without an airplane.
A helium balloon can not travel higher than the atmosphere, To reach space you'd have to travel higher than a Helium balloon can travel.

The first American was not a human, Either dog or monkey, forget which.
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Old 09-13-2010, 05:10 PM   #25
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Mercury 1 !???
Ummm, nope.

Not after Ham the monkey, Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom.

To be precise, Ham was a chimpanzee, which is an ape, not a monkey. As far as his citizenship goes, he was captured in Africa and his passport status remains unknown.
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Some SWAGs

Orbits......... 9?

Capsule name...... Friendship?
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He qualified to be President then, didn't he?
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Some SWAGs

Orbits......... 9?

Capsule name...... Friendship?
I'll have mercy on Greg.

3 orbits, should have been 7, but mission control had a false alarm about the heat shield being loose so the cut the mission short.

Capsule name was Friendship 7.

And John Glenn was a United States Marine!

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NASA launched 2 spacecraft named Challenger. One was the ill fated shuttle. What and where is the other one?
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I'll have mercy on Greg.

3 orbits, should have been 7, but mission control had a false alarm about the heat shield being loose so the cut the mission short.

Capsule name was Friendship 7.

And John Glenn was a United States Marine!
Hey now! I was closer on my first orbits swag! And I got the service correct on my second guess. So did the 7 in the name come from the number of orbits it was supposed to make?
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NASA launched 2 spacecraft named Challenger. One was the ill fated shuttle. What and where is the other one?
Ok. This one "sounds" familiar...

Challenger is also a deep space probe right? And it's somewhere out in space. Orbiting a planet or something like that. Right? Right?

Geeze man you're killin me on these.
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Ok. This one "sounds" familiar...

Challenger is also a deep space probe right?
Well, not all that deep. And it ain't going anywhere.
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In the Smithsonian??
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Nope. Further out than that.
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Nope. Further out than that.
roaming the solar system?
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I can see it from my house. Not really. But if I had a really good telescope...
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I can see it from my house. Not really. But if I had a really good telescope...
The moon?
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The moon?
Correct!

The Lunar Lander (LEM) left behind by Apollo 17 was named Challenger, to encourage the resumption of manned moon missions, as Apollo 17 was the last of the Apollo program. Mission Commander Eugene Cernan was the last man to step from the lunar surface.

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Yup Sally Ride...
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Sally Ride is correct!

Andy, don't you mean "Ride, Captain, ride, upon your mystery ship..."
Or were you thinking "Mustang Sally"

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Who was the last American to fly into space alone?
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