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Who's the Greatest of Them All?, Think on your favourite space exploration figure and vote

ustrax View Member Profile	Oct 19 2006, 10:48 AM Post #1
Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra \| Portugal Member No.: 228	Well... As everyone is quite sleepy due to the conjunction I thought about throwing a contest, we all know how we love a good fight... On our national tv it has started a format that those in UK should know because it came from there, originally known as "The Great Bretons", here has gained the "Os Grandes Portugueses" title. The objective is to choose the figure, alive or dead, that, from it's achievements you consider the most important...It was hard to decide but I've choosen Henry the Navigator, but Dom Afonso Henriques, Magalhães, Pessoa, Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira, Camões and Bartolomeu Dias made me think a lot... We could do that here during this limbo days... To vote on the one we consider the most important person on the quest for space knowledge. To spice things a bit and avoid the hard task of choosing between this one or that one we have the right to choose five figures and vote them from 1 to 5 according to the importance we give them. If anyone wants to add some more rules or ideas feel free to do so... So, here goes my selection: Carl Sagan - 1 Von Braun - 2 Korolev - 3 Galileo Galilei - 4 Yuri Gagarin - 5 Fight! Fight! Fight! -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!" Edgar Alan Poe

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tty View Member Profile	Oct 19 2006, 08:08 PM Post #2
Member Group: Members Posts: 688 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Sweden Member No.: 273	Perhaps we should add Nikita Khrushchev. If he hadn't given Korolev the go-ahead there would never have been a space-race. tty

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ustrax Who's the Greatest of Them All? Oct 19 2006, 10:48 AM

AndyG Tsiolkovsky - 1 Goddard - 2 The "Verein für R... Oct 19 2006, 12:04 PM

paxdan you forgot some: 1 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky 2 Rob... Oct 19 2006, 12:05 PM

climber Here is my vote : Icare (idea & dream) Tsiolko... Oct 19 2006, 12:19 PM

angel1801 My 5 picks. 1. Carl Sagan I own the Cosmos DVD b... Oct 19 2006, 12:48 PM

paxdan QUOTE (climber @ Oct 19 2006, 01:19 PM) A... Oct 19 2006, 12:57 PM

MahFL 1. Carl Sagan. 2. John F Kennedy (created the spac... Oct 19 2006, 01:15 PM

ustrax Gentlemen...You are forgetting the votes... Maybe ... Oct 19 2006, 01:23 PM

Stu QUOTE (ustrax @ Oct 19 2006, 01:23 PM) Ge... Oct 19 2006, 01:52 PM

ustrax QUOTE (Stu @ Oct 19 2006, 02:52 PM) I rea... Oct 19 2006, 02:38 PM

climber QUOTE (ustrax @ Oct 19 2006, 04:38 PM) I ... Oct 19 2006, 08:12 PM

Tesheiner QUOTE (climber @ Oct 19 2006, 10:12 PM) I... Oct 20 2006, 08:12 AM

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RNeuhaus The first men who made right directions that helpe... Oct 19 2006, 04:49 PM

David Because you forgot them... 1. Hugo Gernsback, for... Oct 19 2006, 05:04 PM

PhilCo126 Here we go: Joshua LEDERBERG 1 Max FAGET ... Oct 19 2006, 05:13 PM

nprev How could Willy Ley have been forgotten so fast? A... Oct 19 2006, 05:47 PM

Jim from NSF.com If Sergeï KOROLEV and Wernher von BRAUN some of y... Oct 19 2006, 05:51 PM

Stu QUOTE (nprev @ Oct 19 2006, 05:47 PM) How... Oct 19 2006, 05:53 PM

tty Perhaps we should add Nikita Khrushchev. If he had... Oct 19 2006, 08:08 PM

climber QUOTE (tty @ Oct 19 2006, 10:08 PM) Perha... Oct 19 2006, 08:13 PM

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