On this very day ...
Apr 12, 2020 13:13:52 #
LWW
Loc: Banana Republic of America
... in 1961 Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first human to travel into space.
Apr 12, 2020 13:17:22 #
LWW wrote:
... in 1961 Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first human to travel into space.
Did you know him?
Apr 12, 2020 13:23:00 #
LWW
Loc: Banana Republic of America
PixelStan77 wrote:
Did you know him?
No, but I did meet Alexei Leonov at the USAF MUSEUM when he spoke there.
Apr 12, 2020 13:37:56 #
That must have been a treat.
--Bob
--Bob
LWW wrote:
No, but I did meet Alexei Leonov at the USAF MUSEUM when he spoke there.
Apr 12, 2020 13:43:44 #
Gagarin most definitely had the right stuff. Courage of the first order.
Apr 12, 2020 13:54:36 #
Apr 12, 2020 15:30:45 #
Soul Dr. wrote:
On this date April 12, 1945, FDR died in office.
No, I think he was in bed.
Apr 12, 2020 16:04:45 #
Larry Swearingen wrote:
No, I think he was in bed.
It was not meant in the literal sense.
It meant he was still president.
Apr 12, 2020 16:12:47 #
KenW
Loc: Portland OR
So does this mean he died in the bed and not in the office while in office? :-)
Apr 13, 2020 08:01:58 #
Apr 13, 2020 08:11:00 #
Apr 13, 2020 10:00:46 #
KenW wrote:
So does this mean he died in the bed and not in the office while in office? :-)
Maybe his bed was in his office.
Apr 13, 2020 12:07:20 #
I think this is also the day the Apollo 13 oxygen tank blew up on the way to the moon.
Apr 13, 2020 12:20:15 #
medphotog
Loc: Witness protection land
jackm1943 wrote:
I think this is also the day the Apollo 13 oxygen tank blew up on the way to the moon.
Nope, that was on the 13th. However, John Young and Bob Crippen took STS-1 (Columbia) up the hill for the first time on the 12th.
Apr 13, 2020 12:28:55 #
medphotog wrote:
Nope, that was on the 13th. However, John Young and Bob Crippen took STS-1 (Columbia) up the hill for the first time on the 12th.
Isn't today the 13th?
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