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Sixty years ago, on July 29, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law, paving the way for the official opening of NASA's doors just a few months later, on Oct. 1.
The drive to create an American civilian space agency began with the shocking revelation on Oct. 4, 1957, that the Soviet Union had beaten the US to the punch and launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, aboard an intercontinental ballistic missile. The USSR was quick to tout its success in launching Earth's "second moon."
"Sputnik 1 was a phenomenon: You could go see it in your backyard," recalled physicist and engineer Guy Stever, who was on the faculty of MIT at the time, in a 1992 oral history workshop on the origins of the law.
Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/how-nasa-got-its-start-60-years-ago-sputnik-eisenhower/
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 30 2018, @07:07PM (2 children)
The best response I've ever seen or heard to your kind of claims is a Youtube video. Thirteen minutes of your life can make you free of all that stupidity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_loUDS4c3Cs&t=0s&index=5&list=PLdINUnNfanbVkwmtbO4on2hyb6aTAtOY- [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by MyOpinion on Thursday August 02 2018, @02:37AM (1 child)
I never claimed I went to the Moon and back, did I?
Proof burdens the claimant, and NASA are doing a poor job providing proof (but they are good at loosing it)
This is the "Space Age", CGI and fireworks in Florida dont really cut it. Fine if you chose to go with your faith, I'd rather stick to facts and what's provable.
Truth is like a Lion: you need not defend it; let it loose, and it defends itself. https://discord.gg/3FScNwc
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday August 02 2018, @02:49AM
Obviously, you didn't watch the video.
When they sent the moonshots up, they didn't have CGI. Try to keep up. A flight to the moon was risky business, that could easily have failed in any number of ways. Any attempt to fake the television coverage would have failed for certain. Rocket science was more developed than video science.
One of the key points of the video is, it would have taken far more computing power to generate a convincing fake than was available to NASA, and probably to the entire US government, at the time.
Just because you have a multi-gigahertz multi-core CPU at your fingertips today, doesn't mean they were available in the '50's and '60's.
The burden of proof is on you. Prove how the television coverage could have been faked.