A tribute to Alexi Leonov - first man to walk in space! - Re

[Dhul Fiqar]

Alexi Leonov on March 18, 1965 left his spacecraft. He was the first man in history to open the hatch of a craft floating in space, and jump out!

Most people remember Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, but seldom do people pay tribute to the brave Soviet man who did the unthinkable and opened the door and floated out into space with nothing but a spacesuit to seperate him from the infinity of the cosmos!

The feeling of being out in the middle of space, near no planet or no moon, must be immense. In fact, my father met him many years ago, and had dinner with him. He said it was the most incredible thing he ever experienced, that to open the door of a man-made vehicle and walk out into the infinitely huge and empty space around him, and to look down at the earth at a distanca.

This was a proud Soviet man, a proud Cosmonaught! Remember Yuri and Alexei, comrades, fuck Neil and Buzz ;)

--- G.

[Eastside Revolt]

Quote: from Dhul Fiqar on 9:02 pm on June 12, 2003
Alexi Leonov on March 18, 1965 left his spacecraft. He was the first man in history to open the hatch of a craft floating in space, and jump out!

Most people remember Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, but seldom do people pay tribute to the brave Soviet man who did the unthinkable and opened the door and floated out into space with nothing but a spacesuit to seperate him from the infinity of the cosmos!

The feeling of being out in the middle of space, near no planet or no moon, must be immense. In fact, my father met him many years ago, and had dinner with him. He said it was the most incredible thing he ever experienced, that to open the door of a man-made vehicle and walk out into the infinitely huge and empty space around him, and to look down at the earth at a distanca.

This was a proud Soviet man, a proud Cosmonaught! Remember Yuri and Alexei, comrades, fuck Neil and Buzz ;)

--- G.

Well how about that, exactly 17 years before my birth, the first man walked in space.

thanx dhul

Oh yeah and my parents named my brother yuri after gigarin.

[Sensitive]

I agree, the Soviet space program kicked ass.

Edit: and don't forget Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, the Chief Designer, who made all the Soviet space triumphs possible.

(Edited by Sensitive at 8:51 pm on June 12, 2003)

[CopperGoat]

This is why I don't believe in Neil Armstrong going on the moon. It was impossible back then. I mean the fucking flag was waving. Let me remind you that there is no wind or air on the moon. And a lot of other stuff.

[CubanFox]

That Bad Astronomy website proves that man landed on the moon.

But anyways, IMO, the USSR won the space race.
http://members.aol.com/astromem/aircraft/gagarin/gagarin.jpg

[Sensitive]

Quote: from CubanFox on 4:38 am on June 13, 2003


But anyways, IMO, the USSR won the space race.Yeah, I agree. Besides, once humans have landed on Mars and the moons of Jupiter and wherever else, landing on the moon will not seem like that big of deal. The most important thing will be the first human in space. And the Soviets were very close to landing on the moon too, about 2-3 months behind the US. The Soviet space program did not get as much funding/support for the moon mission as NASA did.

[Dhul Fiqar]

redcanada: That's cool, seems you have cool parents :)

Sensitive: Sergei Pavlovich Korolev - a genius I forgot! Thanks for bringing his name up :)

As for the moonlanding being a hoax, that theory never held water and has always been laughably easy to disprove with an elementary phsyics book. They stuck the flag in and shook it about to push it in, there was almost no gravity. The obvious result is that the flag would not stop waving around for several hours at least, possibly weeks. It's simple momentum, there wasn't gravity to pull it down or stabilize the movement immediately. This is evident in many other experiments done on the moon involving momentum.

All the other "arguments" are fundamental misunderstandings of the laws of physics, too. There are lots of articles on line that totally refute this conspiracy theory.

--- G.

[CopperGoat]

Well then I guess I was wrong. But still, how could the US lose a man going to space but win a man going on the moon? It's like skipping a stage.

[Kapitan Andrey]

I'm proud to be compatriot with Yuriy Gagarin and Alexey Leonov!!!

[kingbee]

Quote: from CubanFox on 10:38 am on June 13, 2003
That Bad Astronomy website proves that man landed on the moon.



i dont think it PROVES anything, but nor do the conspiracy theories. we'll never really know what went on, but we can guess, and throw points at each other.

[canikickit]

Who cares who "won" the space race?
I don't give a crap which of them it was.