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Originally posted by InfaRedMan
Didn't Aldrin later claim that it was one of the rocket stages?
He may well have been told to say that in public, to keep the questions at bay. But i think the transcripts paint a very different picture.
Originally posted by InfaRedMan
Didn't Aldrin later claim that it was one of the rocket stages? I remember him saying something to that effect on Larry King a year or so ago. Aldrin is an odd chap... my gut feeling has always given me the sense that he is not to be trusted.
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Originally posted by Acidtastic
He may well have been told to say that in public, to keep the questions at bay. But i think the transcripts paint a very different picture.
Excellent work Exuberant1!!
Originally posted by ecoparity
What I find interesting is how in the Gemini missions the astronauts are willing to speak pretty openly on coms about things. That and the bogey report where capcom asks him if this is a genuine "sighting". I don't see how anyone could miss the context of that line.
You can tell some form of official policy was already in place and that they were told to avoid reporting things on open coms in later missions. (Wasn't the private side-band, encrypted com gear added to Apollo?)
I get a definite impression there was some sort of security crack down after the number of reports during Gemini.
Originally posted by Exuberant1
(The nearest object was the Pegasus, and that was 1200 miles away. This one was about 10 miles distant and had "Arms and cylindrical things sticking out" )
1957
04 Oct First satellite, first Russian satellite, Russia becomes the 1st space power: Sputnik 01
03 Nov First living creature in space: Sputnik 02
1958
01 Feb First American satellite, America becomes the 2nd space power: Explorer 01
18 Dec First telecommunication satellite: Score
1959
13 Oct First meteorology payload: Explorer 07
1960
03 Nov First NASA satellite: Explorer 08
1962
24 Feb First phone communication & TV broadcast via satellite: Echo 1
26 Apr First English satellite: Ariel 1
10 Jul First active telecommunication satellite and first time a company launchs a satellite: Telstar 1
29 Sep First Canadian satellite: Alouette 1
1964
19 Aug First geostationary satellite, first geostationary telecommunication satellite: Syncom 3
15 Dec First Italian satellite: San Marco 1
1965
26 Nov First French satellite, France becomes the 3rd space power: Astérix
Originally posted by JimOberg
Didn't the OP claim this stuff was from the 'voiuce recorder'? Almost all the citations I've seen are from open air-to-ground with 'CC' (CAPCOM) in on the discussions. Stuff that's been out in the public domain for decades.
Is this some kind of 'bait and switch'?
Is this some kind of 'bait and switch'?
Originally posted by FireMoon
reply to post by JimOberg
Bogey
A radar or visual air contact whose identity is unknown.
Definition from wiki.... so why would he say. "We used the usual term for these things"? When actually that is a lie? Not only that, one quite easily proven to be a lie...