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#390412 - Thu Oct 04 2007 09:21 AM Sputnik turns 50
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50 years ago today, Russia launched Sputnik 1.

It goes to show a lot of very good things happened in 1957.

Happy 50th Birthday Sputnik 1.
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#390413 - Thu Oct 04 2007 09:42 AM Re: Sputnik turns 50
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Have a good birthday sputnik 1 !
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#390414 - Thu Oct 04 2007 10:12 AM Re: Sputnik turns 50
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Great. Happy Birthday! to Sputnik, and all that ... but now I can be called (rather impolitely, I predict ) "older than the Space Program".

Better than "older than dirt", I reckon ...
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#390415 - Thu Oct 04 2007 10:23 AM Re: Sputnik turns 50
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but now I can be called (rather impolitely, I predict ) "older than the Space Program".




I'm sure twenty years from now there will be an event that people can say they are "older than," but to be able to remember when there wasn't any satellites (outside of the moon) is, in my opinion, a good thing. It was, at least for most, a simpler time when we weren't always rushed.
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#390416 - Thu Oct 04 2007 12:57 PM Re: Sputnik turns 50
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I remember when Sputnik went up and the non vocal pop tune (quite radical at the time) called Telstar performed by a group called the Tornados. It went to No1. I liked the tune so much that I travelled to Sheffield, in the north, to see the group perform. Big mistake! Hordes of screaming girls, I couldn't hear a note; and to this day I hate 'Beehives' with a passion (couldn't see much either).
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#390417 - Fri Oct 05 2007 03:10 AM Re: Sputnik turns 50
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Even before reading your post trojan, I was mentally dee-dah-darring, to the tune of Telstar!
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#390418 - Fri Oct 05 2007 03:52 AM Re: Sputnik turns 50
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#390419 - Fri Oct 05 2007 04:29 AM Re: Sputnik turns 50
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Actually trojan, thinking about it, Telstar wasn't for the Sputnik, it was for 'Telstar'.

To quote from Wiki...

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Telstar was the first active communications satellite (launched in 1962), and the first satellite designed to transmit telephone and high-speed data communications. Its name is used to this day for a number of television broadcasting satellites.




So that was a few years later.
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#390420 - Fri Oct 05 2007 06:06 AM Re: Sputnik turns 50
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All these years and I didn't know. Huh!
Actually, thinking about it, you have to be right 'cos I was about 16 when Telstar played. I just seem to associate the two, Sputnik and Telstar, for some reason. Odd. I'm sure that I used to have sober moments way back then, hard to remember tho'.

Than you Ren, still a nice tune.


Edited by trojan11 (Fri Oct 05 2007 06:07 AM)
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#390421 - Fri Oct 05 2007 08:32 AM Re: Sputnik turns 50
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Well great. Now I'm going to have Telstar playing in my mind all day. However, as DG Dave said, it is a time upon which to reflect when life was less complicated (for me) and the worst I had to worry about was if I was going to stop on my way home from school for french fries. Happy Birthday to everyone who can remember the happening! And, I'm a day late and a dollar short to boot!
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#390422 - Fri Oct 05 2007 08:37 AM Re: Sputnik turns 50
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I had forgotten about the song entitled "Telstar." It's nice to get to hear it again.
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#390423 - Sat Oct 06 2007 12:58 AM Re: Sputnik turns 50
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So - do I now admit that I saw Sputnik? It was a very chilly night and my darling dad hauled me out of bed and stood me in the back garden.

He pointed out this small point of light moving across the sky and told me what it was. I still have that image burned into my brain and I still remember that my slippers got wet in the early morning dew.
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