[amsat-bb] Re: April 12 - Yuri & ARISSat-1

[Rocky Jones]

We can celebrate many things about Yuri Gagarin, but one of them is not his space walk.
You probably meant "space flight"...Alex Leoniv did the first space walk followed by Ed White..

As for ArISSat... oh dear.  so many thoughts...Robert G. Oler WB5MZO 5N something and ARRL AMSAT NARS life member 

> From: clintbradford at mac.com
> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 15:53:04 -0800
> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
> CC: ariss-ops at amsat.org
> Subject: [amsat-bb]  April 12 - Yuri & ARISSat-1
> 
> Yes, we are all disappointed that the deployment of ARISSat-1 has been delayed - in direct violation of handshakes and written agreements.
> 
> But that does not mean that we should ignore the historical event that April 12 is bringing us: the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space walk.
> 

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