An evening pause: Fifty years ago today.
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Recent And Upcoming Appearances
- Radio: every Tuesday and Thursday at 11:30 pm (EST), and Sunday at 11:50 pm (EST), the John Batchelor Show, syndicated nationally. The weekday show appearances are sometimes 30 minutes long. Appearance times and days may vary, depending on events, with these changes shown below.
- Lecture: March 6, 2012, 7:00 pm, The Syracuse University student chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
- No John Batchelor Show appearances the week of March 19-23, 2012. John Batchelor in transit to France.
- Radio: March 26, 2012, 10:30 pm (Eastern), the John Batchelor Show, syndicated nationally.
- Radio: March 27, 2012: No John Batchelor Show appearance.
- Radio: April 24, 2012: 11:00 pm to 11:30 pm (Eastern, the John Batchelor Show, syndicated nationally.
- Radio: April 30, 2012, 2:00-4:00 pm (Pacific), The Space Show with David Livingston, webcast here.
- Radio: May 2, 2012, 9:05 pm - 9:30 pm (Central), WCCO-AM, with Steve Thomson, Minnapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.
- Lecture: July 6, 2012, 7:00 pm, the Huachuca Astronomy Club, in the Community Room of Cochise College, Sierra Vista, Arizona.
Consider that only 3 1/2 years earlier the first man-made object of any type had been orbited.