[FPSPACE] Earth's First Self-Financed Astronaut

[Phillip Clark]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 JamesOberg@aol.com wrote:
> http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=263
> Earth's First Self-Financed Astronaut 
> keith cowing //  Sunday, December 10, 2000 
>      Dennis Tito wants to fly into space. He has wanted to fly in space since 
> he first saw Sputnik arc across the night sky in October 1957. Since he 
> didn't make the one in a million cut to be a government astronaut, he chose 
> the only other alternative available: he's buying his own ride into space. 


Now everyone knows I hate to be pedantic, but did he really see Sputnik
?   Or most likely he saw the long Blok A central core and thought it was
Sputnik ?

Or it could have been one of those flying-saucer-thingeys, of course.

Phillip Clark

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Phillip S Clark                                     22 Winterbourne Close
Molniya Space Consultancy                           Hastings
Compiler/Publisher, Worldwide Satellite Launches    E Sussex  TN34 1XG
                                                    U.K.

Specialist in "space archeology" - the older and more obscure the more 
interesting it is !
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