[FPSPACE] Two new space anniversaries divisible by zero and five.

[David Portree]

Larry:
 
Sorry to chime in late. Didn't one of the Mercury missions release a balloon (I think as part of a space visibility experiment)? As I recall, it promptly exploded. Not a camera, but something released from a Mercury, anyway.

David S. F. Portree

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From: ljk4 at msn.com
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Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:57:07 -0500
Subject: [FPSPACE] Two new space anniversaries divisible by zero and five.




The day after the 48th anniversary of the first successful flyby of another planet with Mariner 2 at Venus on December 14, 1962, we have:
 
The first successful landing by a probe on the surface of another planet, in this case the USSR's Venera 7 on Venus on December 15, 1970.
Though if you read the details on this mission here, it almost was another failure in trying to reach the face of that world (scroll down):
 
http://www.mentallandscape.com/V_Lavochkin1.htm
 
The first true rendezvous in space by two manned spacecraft, Gemini 6 and 7, on December 15, 1965.  The mission wasn't even the original plan
of these two spacecraft, but it made for some legendary imagery:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cHm7bJolnE
 
Wouldn't it have been neat if a Mercury mission could have released a small satellite with a camera to image the spacecraft in orbit?
Would it have been possible then?
 
Larry
 
 
 

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