[amsat-bb] Re: Moans and groans ...

[John Spasojevich]

When I said failure of Yuri's night I was speaking solely of ARISSat's role
in it.

John

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Clint Bradford <clintbrad4d at earthlink.net>wrote:

> >> ... the failure of Yuri's Night ...
>
> Huh?
>
> Yuri's Night was a wildly successful event - with gatherings on every
> continent of the planet.
> Tell any of the 28 people who attended my Yuri's Night party of a
> "failure," and they'll each
> be able to properly educate you as to what Yuri's Night was all about.
>
> Only a few of my attendees were hams. But everyone received handouts and
> watched
> NASA and Russian videos and had a marvelous time - while being educated as
> to the
> past, present, and future of space exploration.
>
> No - We didn't have our new ham satellite to work that night. But to call
> Yuri's Night a
> "failure" is quite wrong - as would attendees of more than 550 parties in
> 75 countries
> across seven continents will tell you. No "failure" occurred on the 50th
> anniversary of
> human spaceflight - only educational opportunities, camaraderie, and
> knowledge was
> shared among thousands.
>
> Clint Bradford, K6LCS
>
>
>
>
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