Two Slightly Used Space Suits For Sale 60
cylonlover writes "More space history will go on sale in New York on May 5 when Bonhams will commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Alan Shepard's historic mission in Freedom 7 with a Space Sale. Some early highlights of the sale include a Sokol K spacesuit worn by cosmonaut Alexei Leonov during the historic 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Project (the symbolic end to the Space Race) and a Sokol KV-2 spacesuit worn by Gennadi Strekalov during a 1990 mission to the Mir space station."
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That's about as funny as a submarine with screen doors.
Would you believe a cigarette machine in a cancer ward?
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"Would you believe a cigarette machine in a cancer ward?"
Where else are the smokers in a hospital?
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The smokers who are missing several limbs already?
Where I live, yep!
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The Russians certainly believe in over-engineering their space suits [wikipedia.org].
I'll take one (Score:4, Insightful)
Kip Russell said he would fix it up for me.
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I heard he was busy over on Vega.
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Better scrub it up with some Skyway soap.
I have good memories of that book. One night, as a kid, I mysteriously found it on my pillow. I had never even heard of Heinlein before. But I started reading it that night, must have been captivated into the wee hours of the morning. Would Kip make it off Pluto? Was the Mother Thing actually kind of creepy? What the hell was up with Madame Pompadour?
Sometime later, my dad came up to me, grinning, and asked me how I liked it.
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Better scrub it up with some Skyway soap.
Highway or byway, there's no soap like Skyway!
Can't believe he didn't win the competition with that slogan.
Pretty sweet deal! (Score:2)
Re:Pretty sweet deal! (Score:5, Informative)
But a pissed-in suit would be perfectly appropriate for the 50th anniversary of Shepard's flight.
While lying on his back for hours waiting for his 15-minute flight, he had to relieve himself into his suit. After that incident, NASA started putting urine collection bags into the spacesuits.
I'd rather celebrate the first *man* in space (Score:5, Insightful)
Typical American shit. We only celebrate NASA's accomplishments (or joint NASA/Russian missions). The average American knows jackshit about all the Soviet "firsts" and accomplishments (basically everything but the first man on the moon). It's an insult to the engineering geniuses that made the space race possible (most of whom couldn't give a shit less about the politics). More Americans can probably name the entire Steelers offensive line than will ever even hear the name Sergey Korolyov [wikipedia.org].
Re: Average American (Score:2)
Well, for a while it was Un-American to know info about Russian stuff. They told us to ' back off and remain blissfully ignorant', so the average American said 'well, okay then'.
Re: Average American (Score:4, Informative)
Well, for a while it was Un-American to know info about Russian stuff.
Even more so, the Russians filtered everything and propagandized what was released through the iron curtain. It wasn't even until the 1980s that people had a chance to really learn the history of the Russian space program.
And according to recent books and documentaries by Nova, some of that isn't truly accurate either.
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Sad. Not only that, but it's likely that more Americans can name the Steelers offensive line than will ever even hear the name Wernher Von Braun. You see, our stupidity knows no borders.
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The first dog to be killed in obit? Meh. Kids are putting stuff almost into orbit now. Landing a man on the moon, and bringing him back in one piece? That's a little harder. I mean, there must be an order or 5 of magnitude difference between the two otherwise the Russians would have ticked that one off the list too, right?
Re:I'd rather celebrate the first *man* in space (Score:4, Informative)
Kids are putting stuff almost into orbit now.
weatherbaloon + digital camera + GPS equiped phone flying below 20 miles != orbit, hell, it doesnt even qualify as space by any reasonable definition
Landing a man on the moon, and bringing him back in one piece? That's a little harder. I mean, there must be an order or 5 of magnitude difference between the two otherwise the Russians would have ticked that one off the list too, right?
The russians WERE working on that quite hard, but political infighting between seperate teams proposing different heavy lift rockets, combined with them picking a slightly problematic design for the actual launcher (the N1 had 30 engines just for its first stage), which produced four unsuccesfull test launches, before the US actually planted their flag on the moon, pretty much killed the russians in the race to put a man on the moon.
Basically, they gambled on the wrong design and lost
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The russians WERE working on that quite hard, but political infighting between seperate teams proposing different heavy lift rockets, combined with them picking a slightly problematic design for the actual launcher (the N1 had 30 engines just for its first stage), which produced....
Why does this sound so familiar and timely? Oh yeah, because the USA has been killing its space program in a similar way for years now.
Fuck, just get a few billion in corporate advertising partnerships and use it to get us to Mars orbit already, where we can at least manipulate some probes usefully in realtime instead of leaving them to roam around with huge lag and probably missing 90% of the potentially interesting stuff they could be examining. And recover some material to bring back to Earth for life
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As opposed to Wernher Von Braun and his spotless history, you mean?
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You Americans never seemed to have a problem with the guy who designed the missiles that were actually used on us.
--A Londoner
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You Americans never seemed to have a problem with the guy who designed the missiles that were actually used on us.
--A Londoner
Widows and orphans who owe their large pensions, etc.
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"The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, every century but this, and every country but his own. He never shall be missed! No he never shall be missed."
(Yeah, I'm altering the quote slightly to complete the verse. Ask me if I care.)
Or, in other words, stop trying to impress people by being oh-so-cool and holier-than-thou. I'm surprised no one's bothered posting something like "Why are we celebrating space travel when it wasted BILLIONS of DOLLARS when there were people STARVING and there was SLAUGHTER
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I'd have gone with Robert Goddard, not von Braun, if you want to talk about underknown (is that a word? it should be) American space pioneers.
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Go to Russia, and you'll find pretty much the same thing. Nationalism isn't limited to America, not by a long shot. Hell, go to Canada and ask 'em about the Shuttle - but be seated and have a beverage at hand because odds are you're going to be treated to 15 minute spiel about the Shuttle and Station robotic arms.
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I was born the day Alan Shepard went up (Score:3)
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I hope you and your brother have fun in your birthday suits.
Free shipping? (Score:2)
Can I get free shipping if I use "Buy it now". What about local pickup?
Oh, and can you post picture of the back of the suits?
First bid... (Score:2)
A penny?
But the $125,000 shipping charge is a little pricey.
Yuck (Score:2)
A short poem (Score:2)
For sale:
Space suit,
never worn.
(Hat-tip [snopes.com] to Ernest H.)
Have spacesuit.. (Score:3)
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I hope Mr Travel enjoys his spacesuit.
Bonhams (Score:1)
Whew! (Score:2)
I was afraid the headline was from an East Texas CraigsList ad.
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Previous Space Auctions... (Score:2)
[reference] http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F0061EF93A5A0C718DDDAB0994DB494D81 [nytimes.com]