Operation Crossbow & rocket trivia

we routinely violated USSR air space from 1946-1962 until the Francis Gary Powers U2 overflight got shot down... We lost scores if not hundreds of military with these overflights into soviet territory..

shockie B)

...Just a little more time....

this was the infamous Sanger-Bredt orbital bomber..

That ought to be 1946-present. Did you forget satellites and the SR71?

How many unsuccessful US attempts before Sputnik I? None. The first US attempt to orbit a satellite, Vanguard TV-3, where the booster rises a few feet and falls back on the pad with the payload nose falling off, came two months after Sputnik I.

How many unsuccessful Soviet attempts before Sputnik I? Who knows?

About a sixth.

Yes we did, and we denied we were doing it.

Try sci.space.history. Someone there will know.

Chris

Oh, I doubt that anyone in a position to actually know of possible Soviet failures prior to Sputnik I is eager to talk about them.

You're right, of course. I sit corrected (I guess I was thinking 20th century and forward).

David Erbas-White

Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

That's pretty funny. So you think we stopped overflying when Powers got shot down?

Only the U2 fly-overs stopped. SR71s took over later. we also had corona.

NUH NUH NUH NINE CORONAS!

Um, what were we talking about?

tah

Man, I sure could go for a Corona now. Hold the fruit.

Right, as I slither off the stage as the weakest link...

Alan

Remember the Alamo!

If we want to talk terrorists (as they are the current enemy), what about OK City? Then there's the Atlanta Olympics.....