And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Name these two men, and the "firsts" for humanity they're famous for.
Left - Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut first man in space, and first to orbit the earth. Right - Aleksei Leonov - cosmonaut, first man to "walk" in space - and an amazingly cool dude. Leonov was also one of the two cosmonauts who participated in the joint USSR/US Apollo Soyuz project.
the russians don't fix what isn't broke. they also don't design a can opener that can also be used as an anti-tank gun. case in point, the "zero G ink pen" that NASA spent quite a bit of money to have developed. the russians used a mechanical pencil. and then there is the Rockwell space shuttle; the ultimate in design by committee can opener.
Left - Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut first man in space, and first to orbit the earth.
ReplyDeleteRight - Aleksei Leonov - cosmonaut, first man to "walk" in space - and an amazingly cool dude. Leonov was also one of the two cosmonauts who participated in the joint USSR/US Apollo Soyuz project.
Full marks for that answer. Both amazingly cool dudes, as you say.
DeleteThe Russkies still have a manned space program. We beg rides to the ISS from them.
ReplyDeleteChina also has a manned space program.
Europe and Japan have never had manned space programs.
We rent a seat from the Russians. Sad sad sad....
Deletethe russians don't fix what isn't broke. they also don't design a can opener that can also be used as an anti-tank gun. case in point, the "zero G ink pen" that NASA spent quite a bit of money to have developed. the russians used a mechanical pencil. and then there is the Rockwell space shuttle; the ultimate in design by committee can opener.
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