Fifty Years On...

[jjpor]

You know, you can be as cynical as you like about the politics surrounding the space race (and you'd be right!) and there are certainly serious arguments as to why we just don't need manned spaceflight, but my inner space cadet can't help thinking "Fifty years, and we're still tooling around in low orbit?" Apart from the moon landings, of course, but they were a long time ago too...

Plus great big rockets are really cool! ;D

Hopefully, though, to strike a sickeningly utopian retro-sf note, when people look back in centuries to come the Cold War will seem like a curiosity and Gagarin and the other space pioneers will be remembered as great figures in human history. Hopefully.

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[jjpor.livejournal.com]

It's one of life's bitter ironies, I gues... :( But yes, I sort of think, things like that inspire people, and in a good way, and you know, we could do with stuff like that today.

I do! I really do... I've been to just about all of the major science and aviation museums here in the UK over the years (and to the science museum in Paris), but I would dearly love to see some of the stuff that's been preserved in the US and Russia. Yes... *dreams*

Could be...could be... I always think, though, that you can never have too much retro-spaceflight stuff, and it's about time Who paid more attention to it. :D