Jump to content

People might already have found this, but here is a possible easter egg about Valentina


Lunaticious

Recommended Posts

Keep an eye on the list of crew hires at the Astronaut Complex - you may see a few other familiar names and tributes in there. :)

But yes - as @ZooNamedGames said, Valentina Kerman is indeed named for Valentina Tereshkova.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

7 minutes ago, LordFerret said:

I forgot about her!  But I'm not sure how I feel about keeping her knowing this... On the one hand, she was an amazing pilot... on the other hand... well, we can't even bring it up.

Edited by Just Jim
Link to comment
Share on other sites

5 hours ago, Just Jim said:

I forgot about her!  But I'm not sure how I feel about keeping her knowing this... On the one hand, she was an amazing pilot... on the other hand... well, we can't even bring it up.

I feel the same about a certain someone who is to be honored in a certain parade coming up in NYC, but, hey, people are screwed in the head. So, yea, ya know...

 

Given all the notoriety and accolades and honors a certain Wernher von Braun has received, why not?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

On the level of nit-picking -- the V-1 was NOT a rocket plane; it was powered by a pulse-jet engine that burned gasoline with air.  The piloted version was modified, with a cockpit just below the jet intake, and was to have the warhead replaced by a launcher holding an array of small rockets (the unguided kind that aircraft would fire in clusters at ground targets).  Some V-1s (including the manned version, which had a different model designation that I don't recall at the moment) were launched from a short rail with a peroxide monopropellant rocket when space didn't permit a much longer steam catapult.

Hannah Reitsch was a hero who did what she had to do to be able to fly, and served her country even when it tried to punish her for it.  The fact that her country was pedant Germany is barely relevant, IMO.

If you want to run down female pilots based on who they flew for, you should note that the Soviet Union for which Valentina Tereshkova flew treated her no better than pedant Germany treated Hannah Reitsch -- and treated their other citizens no better, either.  Doesn't make the first woman in space any less of a hero.

Edit: apparently the word filter changes the abbreviation of "National Socialist" to pedant -- carry on.

Edited by Zeiss Ikon
Point out word filter changing meaning.
Link to comment
Share on other sites

7 minutes ago, Zeiss Ikon said:

If you want to run down female pilots based on who they flew for, you should note that the Soviet Union for which Valentina Tereshkova flew treated her no better than pedant Germany treated Hannah Reitsch -- and treated their other citizens no better, either.  Doesn't make the first woman in space any less of a hero.

I did not mean to sound like I was running Hannah down... quite the opposite. I've heard some of things she did, like landing a small plane in the last couple weeks of the war inside Berlin while it was surrounded by Russians, I believe on a bombed out road.... and getting back out again in one piece.. that is really amazing no matter who you are.

And like @LordFerret pointed out:

On 5/26/2017 at 3:20 PM, LordFerret said:

Given all the notoriety and accolades and honors a certain Wernher von Braun has received, why not?

So I suppose it would be a little hypocritical of me to praise one for their achievements and not the other, despite the.... situation.

OK, if I get a pilot named Hannah Kerbin, I will keep her.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

57 minutes ago, NSEP said:

Yup, Val is named after Val, Btw im going send Val to Vall tonight as a tribute to Vall.

I think you are influnced by loading screen hints...

"Sending Val to Vall":wink:

Funny Kabooms 

Urses 

On topic: i think KSP is on the right way to honor space pioniers by their dead's (?) for scincific approaches. And we have a Werner in KSP by the way. And he was a military sciencist don't let us forget about this. If you are on salary to build a weapon you have to build one. Ethics are human desire but bread is a human need.

Edited by Urses
Link to comment
Share on other sites

3 hours ago, Urses said:

by their dead's

Yes... although the word you were looking for there was "deeds". Understood none-the-less.

 

 

15 hours ago, Zeiss Ikon said:

On the level of nit-picking -- the V-1 was NOT a rocket plane;

Yet history has decidedly considered it to be so, classifying it as a 'cruise missile', which is in essence a low altitude rocket.

To look at the thing, it sure looks like a rocket to me.

Edited by LordFerret
Link to comment
Share on other sites

You may not have meant this, but I consider this here a possible easter egg about Valentina....

 

Spoiler

oQB4LrI.png

Val and Jeb, sitting in a pod.... wait a minute, are they holding hands...?

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

8 minutes ago, swjr-swis said:

wait a minute, are they holding hands...?

Kinda looks like they are fist bumping. They might be though....

Link to comment
Share on other sites

8 hours ago, LordFerret said:

Yet history has decidedly considered it to be so, classifying it as a 'cruise missile', which is in essence a low altitude rocket.

To look at the thing, it sure looks like a rocket to me.

No denying, the V-1 was a cruise missile (though not the first one -- that honor goes to a propeller powered flying bomb built by the US Army in the 1920s.  It was also one of the earliest radio controlled aircraft).  However, most modern cruise missiles are also jet powered (there are a few that have rocket engines as primary propulsion; they're typically the supersonic sort used against moving targets like ships).  The American Tomahawk uses a small turbofan engine and cruises not much faster than the V-1 (around 150+ m/s) -- but like the short-launcher version of the V-1, the surface and submarine versions are launched by a rocket engine (it virtually stands on its tail until it builds up some horizontal speed, and doesn't extend the wings until the booster has burned out).

And to me, the V-1 doesn't look at bit like a rocket.  It looks like an airplane designed by a 3rd grader.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

10 hours ago, swjr-swis said:

You may not have meant this, but I consider this here a possible easter egg about Valentina....

 

  Hide contents

oQB4LrI.png

Val and Jeb, sitting in a pod.... wait a minute, are they holding hands...?

 

That is just a retouched still from the 1.0 release video. And a fist-bump. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

3 hours ago, stibbons said:

That is just a retouched still from the 1.0 release video. And a fist-bump.

A tiny lil more than just a retouched still. Camera angle is completely different, shadows and reflections are not the same. They went to quite a bit of trouble to recreate that specific moment for the 'still'.

And we don't even know what a fist-bump means for kerbals.

 

Ahh well, I'm sure they were just uhm... aligning planets.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

3 minutes ago, swjr-swis said:

A tiny lil more than just a retouched still. Camera angle is completely different, shadows and reflections are not the same. They went to quite a bit of trouble to recreate that specific moment for the 'still'.

We don't even know what other versions of that video existed before the final was uploaded to youtube. They may have gone to no trouble at all to snap that shot.

4 minutes ago, swjr-swis said:

And we don't even know what a fist-bump means for kerbals.

 

Ahh well, I'm sure they were just uhm... aligning planets.

Sometimes a fist-bump is just a fist-bump.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

This thread is quite old. Please consider starting a new thread rather than reviving this one.

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...