Yes, we are all disappointed that the deployment of ARISSat-1 has been delayed - in direct violation of handshakes and written agreements.
But that does not mean that we should ignore the historical event that April 12 is bringing us: the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space walk.
This is an opportunity for us. I have signed up with one organization to throw a little party at my house ...
We'll have exclusive videos to share with attendees (even one from Bill Nye, the Science Guy!), history to relate, and a tentative pass of the ISS here in Southern California at 9:41PM on the 12th to hopefully monitor ARISSat-1.
The YurisNight.net people ( http://yurisnight.net/partylist/?partyid=1381 ) have put together quite a Web site. "We" can learn a lot by perusing their promotional materials and press/media releases. I would love for us to be thinking along the same lines for our future satellite announcements and launches. There's not a huge cost involved to put together such media alerts and promotional pieces. We DO have professional public relations people among us. As I read through the Sponsorship Kit and Media Kit on YurisNight.net, I envisioned how such materials would benefit AMSAT and our cause ...
Our friends across the pond have put together another great Yuri resource - http://www.yurigagarin50.org/
SO, at least in the Bradford household in Mira Loma CA US, we are CELEBRATING on April 12. I will be sending my local newspapers a media alert on the ARISSat-1 project and Yuri's anniversary (one newspaper will print it - the other is a 50/50 proposition). I am using the date to promote AMSAT and ARISSat-1. There will be live video from our back yard transmitted to the planet via UStream if we are able to hear ARISSat-1 that evening.
We ALL can "use" this date to promote everything we're here for: AMSAT, amateur radio, and the future of manned space travel.
Clint Bradford, K6LCS 909-241-7666 http://www.work-sat.com
We can celebrate many things about Yuri Gagarin, but one of them is not his space walk. You probably meant "space flight"...Alex Leoniv did the first space walk followed by Ed White..
As for ArISSat... oh dear. so many thoughts...Robert G. Oler WB5MZO 5N something and ARRL AMSAT NARS life member
From: clintbradford@mac.com Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 15:53:04 -0800 To: amsat-bb@amsat.org CC: ariss-ops@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] April 12 - Yuri & ARISSat-1
Yes, we are all disappointed that the deployment of ARISSat-1 has been delayed - in direct violation of handshakes and written agreements.
But that does not mean that we should ignore the historical event that April 12 is bringing us: the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space walk.
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If you want to get technical, Gagarin did actually do an EVA of sorts. The Russians were not sure he'd survive the landing so at 50,000 feet they had him bail out of the ship and parachute down. They kept this secret for quite some time as they were afraid that we'd claim some kind of foul and use that to claim Sheppard was the first true space traveler. I think this became public knowledge sometime in the '80's after the fall of the USSR.
So, like I said, "technically" you could call it an EVA, since he left his ship while it was airborne.
73 de Rick K7TEJ
---- Rocky Jones orbitjet@hotmail.com wrote:
We can celebrate many things about Yuri Gagarin, but one of them is not his space walk. You probably meant "space flight"...Alex Leoniv did the first space walk followed by Ed White..
As for ArISSat... oh dear. so many thoughts...Robert G. Oler WB5MZO 5N something and ARRL AMSAT NARS life member
From: clintbradford@mac.com Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 15:53:04 -0800 To: amsat-bb@amsat.org CC: ariss-ops@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] April 12 - Yuri & ARISSat-1
Yes, we are all disappointed that the deployment of ARISSat-1 has been delayed - in direct violation of handshakes and written agreements.
But that does not mean that we should ignore the historical event that April 12 is bringing us: the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space walk.
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... If you want to get technical, Gagarin did actually do an EVA of sorts.
Thanks, Rick, for trying to bail me out ... But it was a mistake/typo on my part ... (grin)
Yes, after his 108-minute flight, Gagarin ejecting from the spacecraft at 7,000 metres (23,000 ft), and landing by parachute.
Under International Federation of Aeronautics (FAI) qualifying rules for aeronautical records, pilots must both take off and land with their craft, so the Soviets kept the landing procedures secret until 1978, when they finally admitted that Gagarin did not land with his spacecraft.
When the flight was publicly announced, after it was successfully completed, it was celebrated around the world as a great triumph, not just for the Soviet Union, but for the world itself, though it once again shocked and embarrassed the United States.
Three weeks later, on 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, when he was launched on the Mercury-Redstone 3 suborbital mission, in a spacecraft named Freedom 7. Though he did not achieve orbit, unlike Gagarin he was the first person to exercise manual control over his spacecraft's attitude and retro-rocket firing.
The first Soviet cosmonaut to exercise manual control was Gherman Titov in Vostok 2 on 6 August 1961.
Almost a year after the Soviets put a human into orbit, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, on 20 February 1962. His Mercury-Atlas 6 mission completed three orbits in the Friendship 7 spacecraft, and splashed-down safely in the Atlantic Ocean, after a tense reentry, due to what falsely appeared from the telemetry data to be a loose heat-shield.
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Hi All,
http://yurigagarin50.org/history/gagarins-flight has details of the timeline and the events on that day.
The website is being built up over the next few weeks with some archive footage and other media stuff!
cheers
Graham G3VZV
----- Original Message ----- From: saguaroastro@cox.net To: clintbradford@mac.com; "Amsat BB" amsat-bb@amsat.org; "Rocky Jones" orbitjet@hotmail.com Cc: ariss-ops@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 7:20 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: April 12 - Yuri & ARISSat-1
If you want to get technical, Gagarin did actually do an EVA of sorts. The Russians were not sure he'd survive the landing so at 50,000 feet they had him bail out of the ship and parachute down. They kept this secret for quite some time as they were afraid that we'd claim some kind of foul and use that to claim Sheppard was the first true space traveler. I think this became public knowledge sometime in the '80's after the fall of the USSR.
So, like I said, "technically" you could call it an EVA, since he left his ship while it was airborne.
73 de Rick K7TEJ
---- Rocky Jones orbitjet@hotmail.com wrote:
We can celebrate many things about Yuri Gagarin, but one of them is not his space walk. You probably meant "space flight"...Alex Leoniv did the first space walk followed by Ed White..
As for ArISSat... oh dear. so many thoughts...Robert G. Oler WB5MZO 5N something and ARRL AMSAT NARS life member
From: clintbradford@mac.com Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 15:53:04 -0800 To: amsat-bb@amsat.org CC: ariss-ops@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] April 12 - Yuri & ARISSat-1
Yes, we are all disappointed that the deployment of ARISSat-1 has been delayed - in direct violation of handshakes and written agreements.
But that does not mean that we should ignore the historical event that April 12 is bringing us: the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space walk.
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