| Science Forum Index » Space - History Forum » FWD: Randy Lovelace and the "Mercury 13" myths... |
|
Page 1 of 1 |
|
| Author |
Message |
| OM... |
 Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:38 pm |
|
|
|
Guest
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
| mholt at (no spam) ohiohills.com... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:38 pm |
|
|
|
Guest
|
On Oct 6, 7:38 pm, OM <o... at (no spam) sci.space.history> wrote:
[quote:096eceee1e]...And again, they seem to gloss over the reasons there were no women
in the original selections:
http://www.space-travel.com/reports/A_Woman_In_Space_999.html
[/quote:096eceee1e]
I gave the book "The Mercury 13" to a lady friend to whom I give books
on women in history. Excluding the note about the new article, the
link is a summary of that book.
We're going to hear about this forever, now. Another disaffected
minority is going to piss all over the game board. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
| Doug Lowe... |
| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 10:51 am |
|
|
|
Guest
|
What's with the claim that only two of the Mercury missions "reached space?"
Even the suborbitals well exceeded the 100km mark.
--Doug
"OM" <om at (no spam) sci.space.history> wrote in message
news:t5lnc5hrtgb6o0egdreq89ab6r2h01ju3i at (no spam) 4ax.com...
[quote:6c5dfe8870]...And again, they seem to gloss over the reasons there were no women
in the original selections:
http://www.space-travel.com/reports/A_Woman_In_Space_999.html
OM
--
]=====================================[
] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [
] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [
] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [
]=====================================[[/quote:6c5dfe8870] |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
| OM... |
| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:17 pm |
|
|
|
Guest
|
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 09:51:03 -0700, "Doug Lowe" <dlowe at (no spam) bcf-engr.com>
wrote:
[quote:227396eff3]What's with the claim that only two of the Mercury missions "reached space?"
Even the suborbitals well exceeded the 100km mark.
[/quote:227396eff3]
....The press tends to "simplify" things where the Shepard and Grissom
flights were concerned. They've always tended to "write off" the two
suborbital flights as being "lesser" flights because they didn't go
full orbital. It's bullshit and all us regulars here know it, but that
hasn't stopped the press from making the mistake for damn near 50
years.
OM
--
]=====================================[
] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [
] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [
] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [
]=====================================[ |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
| Jorge R. Frank... |
| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:32 pm |
|
|
|
Guest
|
OM wrote:
[quote:af4695ab29]On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 09:51:03 -0700, "Doug Lowe" <dlowe at (no spam) bcf-engr.com
wrote:
What's with the claim that only two of the Mercury missions "reached space?"
Even the suborbitals well exceeded the 100km mark.
...The press tends to "simplify" things where the Shepard and Grissom
flights were concerned. They've always tended to "write off" the two
suborbital flights as being "lesser" flights because they didn't go
full orbital. It's bullshit and all us regulars here know it, but that
hasn't stopped the press from making the mistake for damn near 50
years.
[/quote:af4695ab29]
Even given that, there were four orbital flights (Glenn, Carpenter,
Schirra, Cooper), not two. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
| OM... |
| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 8:40 pm |
|
|
|
Guest
|
On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:32:23 -0500, "Jorge R. Frank"
<jrfrank at (no spam) ibm-pc.borg> wrote:
[quote:95cb13b1f5]OM wrote:
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 09:51:03 -0700, "Doug Lowe" <dlowe at (no spam) bcf-engr.com
wrote:
What's with the claim that only two of the Mercury missions "reached space?"
Even the suborbitals well exceeded the 100km mark.
...The press tends to "simplify" things where the Shepard and Grissom
flights were concerned. They've always tended to "write off" the two
suborbital flights as being "lesser" flights because they didn't go
full orbital. It's bullshit and all us regulars here know it, but that
hasn't stopped the press from making the mistake for damn near 50
years.
Even given that, there were four orbital flights (Glenn, Carpenter,
Schirra, Cooper), not two.
[/quote:95cb13b1f5]
....Yeah, I was about to post that I misread the mistake. Got fixated
on the usual blunder the press tends to make regarding the Mercury
flights.
OM
--
]=====================================[
] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [
] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [
] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [
]=====================================[ |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
