[FPSPACE] JimO: Sputnik's Legacy

[Jens Kieffer-Olsen]

 -----Original Message-----
 From: E.P. Grondine [mailto:epgrondine at hotmail.com] 
 Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 6:22 PM

> The first space age ended when Mariner 4 returned images from 
> Mars that unmistakably showed that Mars was not like the Earth.
> 
> The second space age started with the first international 
> comsat television broadcast. Ot maybe with the radio from
> sputnik, or Echo 1. 
> It was followed by weather, gps, and Earth resource satellites.
> 
> The third space age started around 1979 with the discovery 
> that impact had killed the dinosaurs.

 Nope!  

 The first space age started on June 5th, 2056 when man first
 stepped down on planet Mars.

 The second space age started on Jan. 30th, 3089 when man took
 into possession the first Earth-like exoplanet just a handful
 of lightyears south of El Paso.

 The third space age, well, the concepts of time and space as
 we know them fail to adequately portrait the circumstances of
 the epic trek that took a platoon of entrepreneurial souls down
 to planetary territory under Andromedan guardianship. 

--
Jens Kieffer-Olsen
Slagelse, Denmark