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Oct 4 2007, 01:33 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 100 Joined: 11-October 04 From: Oxford, UK (Glasgow by birth) Member No.: 101 |
WOW!! Nice one Doug............... , nearly fell off my chair when I logged on....
Brian -------------------- "There are 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary code, and those who don't."
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Dec 3 2012, 04:27 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 808 Joined: 10-October 06 From: Maynard Mass USA Member No.: 1241 |
Thanks Astro0, for the Mariner 2 logo... it made me remember...
I remember the newspapers describing the launch in the summer of '62. My Dad (a WWII Big-Red-One vet and ham radio guy) would always make sure we read the 'space' articles. We would sit around the kitchen table after dinner, and since we all couldn't read it at the same time, one of us (5 kids) would be tasked to read 'the interesting news' out loud (as Dad called it). That night, the interesting news was that "we where actually going to Venus!". Then later in that winter, I remember that we were reading about what Mariner 2 had found. The big news was that the surface was scorching! No life there, we all concluded. (no images either, that would have to wait for Mariner 10, I think) Its kind of quaint (in this fast paced internet age) how we depended upon the newspapers back then for our 'real time' space info. Our huge kitchen table was the center of our life. We had a 5x3 blackboard on one wall of the kitchen, with chalk and erasers so that any one of us could explain or develop a problem or just draw. It was where we shared meals, read the papers, did our homework, debated everything, and learned about the world...and all the while Dad's old Hallicrafters SB-40 radio was always on, softly audible from its shelf in the "pantry/Ham Radio Shack" off the kitchen, tuned to WBZ news. Those 50 years have really zipped by... I miss Dad, he would have loved the news from all the space craft 'out there' today. -------------------- CLA CLL
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