Comments on: April 2, 2024 Quick space links https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/april-2-2024-quick-space-links/ Sun, 07 Apr 2024 01:34:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/april-2-2024-quick-space-links/#comment-1455830 Sun, 07 Apr 2024 01:34:54 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=104036#comment-1455830 You were lucky.

My Dad—a good man I also miss—hated space and vacation travel.

]]> By: Andi https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/april-2-2024-quick-space-links/#comment-1455235 Wed, 03 Apr 2024 17:15:25 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=104036#comment-1455235 My dad, Chief of Meteorological Satellites at the time, took me to the launch of his baby, Tiros I. From what I remember, it was quite spectacular. I have a letter addressed to him from T Keith Glennan, NASA Administrator, dated April 1, 1960, congratulating him on the “splendid achievement represented by the flight of Tiros I”, and going on to state “This first step on the road to meteorological satellite systems means very much to this nation and, I hope, to the world.” Tiros, and its followon, Nimbus, proved to be fantastically successful. Quite a feather in his cap!

What was really interesting that Tiros used a TV camera (it was after all, Television Infra Red Observation Satellite) to take pictures and record them on magnetic tape, which was then rewound and played back when the satellite was over a ground station. No space-based communications network at the time!

Miss you, Dad.

]]> By: Tony https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/april-2-2024-quick-space-links/#comment-1455225 Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:53:32 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=104036#comment-1455225 2001 got the government coverups correct.

]]> By: Ray Van Dune https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/april-2-2024-quick-space-links/#comment-1455206 Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:46:59 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=104036#comment-1455206 I went to the premier showing with a bunch of young guys my age. Later, over beers we discussed what parts we liked the best. The popular winner by far was the light show near the end.

But I picked the early scene where the high-flung bone morphed into an orbiting satellite, and HAL telling the astronaut “I’m sorry Dave, but I’m afraid I can’t do that!”

]]> By: Doubting Thomas https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/april-2-2024-quick-space-links/#comment-1455171 Wed, 03 Apr 2024 04:44:23 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=104036#comment-1455171 I remember going with my dad to see the premier of 2001. As we were walking out of the movie theater, he said to me: “I didn’t really understand the beginning and end of the movie”. I was 14 and too cool to admit that I was a little unsure myself. Now I wish I had told him the truth.

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/april-2-2024-quick-space-links/#comment-1455160 Wed, 03 Apr 2024 03:10:43 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=104036#comment-1455160 2001: A Space Odyssey
Dawn of Man
https://youtu.be/EcmJFeKJNcg
8:03

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