24th. December 1968 ; Earthrise above the moon
Thank you Capetonian for posting this video, I remember that day so well. An iconic moment!
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Great times to live in, the 1960s. Concorde, men to the Moon and back etc. And now we have the A380
and, wheezing around in low-Earth orbit, the ISS.
"We went to The Moon and we discovered The Earth".
Have a cool Yule
SSD
and, wheezing around in low-Earth orbit, the ISS."We went to The Moon and we discovered The Earth".
Have a cool Yule
SSD
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Hey SSD,
You forgot the Mini Skirts, plus Beatles, Stones Kinks, The Who, the Twist, The Mashed potato, Macmillan and "We've never had it so Good", then Wilson " then it was always so BAD".
Great Time's Man...
You forgot the Mini Skirts, plus Beatles, Stones Kinks, The Who, the Twist, The Mashed potato, Macmillan and "We've never had it so Good", then Wilson " then it was always so BAD".
Great Time's Man...
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@#5 - The 60's
It's too often forgotten that the 747 was born the same year as the Concorde, and the 737 the year before. Beside, the Airbus co. is founded at the same time.
For the military aviation the likely persistent Hawker Harrier and the C-5 Galaxy is from the same Year!
I'm born in '59, and it's right that the 60's was an amazing time with fly-tech leaps wich hasn't been seen until much later, If at all. It's only seven years ago that Airbus A380 brought the next leap after 747/Concorde.
The SR71 was from mid 60's and at '69 we hadn't probably heard of it yet, but it kept the honour of being unmatched for the rest of the millenium, only beaten by new age highly digital photo-resolution and transmission from sattelites and lately unmanned drones to stay over target for extremely long time.
F-104 Starfighter flew just before the 60's, but used the decade to continously set new records in speed; climb and hight.
But ofcourse, You do mention all of this with Your "etc." ;-)
For the military aviation the likely persistent Hawker Harrier and the C-5 Galaxy is from the same Year!
I'm born in '59, and it's right that the 60's was an amazing time with fly-tech leaps wich hasn't been seen until much later, If at all. It's only seven years ago that Airbus A380 brought the next leap after 747/Concorde.
The SR71 was from mid 60's and at '69 we hadn't probably heard of it yet, but it kept the honour of being unmatched for the rest of the millenium, only beaten by new age highly digital photo-resolution and transmission from sattelites and lately unmanned drones to stay over target for extremely long time.
F-104 Starfighter flew just before the 60's, but used the decade to continously set new records in speed; climb and hight.
But ofcourse, You do mention all of this with Your "etc." ;-)
