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Wich spacecraft series did you grow up with?  

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  1. 1. Wich spacecraft series.

    • Mercury
      0
    • Vostok/Voshkod
      0
    • Gemini
      0
    • Apollo
      4
    • Soyuz 7K
      1
    • Soyuz T
      2
    • Soyuz TM
      2
    • Soyuz TMA
      4
    • Soyuz MS
      3
    • Space Shuttle
      29
    • Shenzou
      3

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1 hour ago, HoloYolo said:

.To be honest I'd be very shocked if someone marked Vostok and/or Mercury literally. I mean, that was over 55 years ago!

You would be like 70 years old for that. Old enough to still be an up and active person.

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11 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

Why? I remember what I've seen on TV since 4 years. And that were Soyuz&Apollo and Klimuk&Sevastianov on Salyut-4.

So, a person 60 years old can easily remember Vostoks and Mercuries.

Do 60 year old people really remember things from when they where like 9?

Im not that old so i dont know,

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I have a vague memory of Apollo, and a very specific memory of Apollo-Soyuz (it coincided with a trip I took with my dad, uncle, and my cousins to visit my grandmother, and we made a point of looking for it flying over when the news told us to one evening. 

There was then a huge gap before Shuttle (seemed huge at the time). Shuttle was when I was at university, and we (other space geeks) both loved it, and hated it. Loved it because... it was something, and spectacular to watch, and hated it because we saw it as wasting time that should be spent doing things we thought should already be happening (nuclear ferry, etc).

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Just now, HoloYolo said:

Yeah, no problem. I live with two older people myself so I know a lot about them lol.

Nice! I do not hear much stories from older people. My grandmother is 80 but she does not say anything.

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5 minutes ago, NSEP said:

Do 60 year old people really remember things from when they where like 9?

Im not that old so i dont know,

Guess what, you just feel like yourself, then one day notice in the mirror that there's some gray hair at your temples. The difference between how I think of myself (I'm not 60, lol) and how I did 30 years ago is basically nil. Heck, you tend to notice other people more---why does my friend look so old, when I'm exactly the same... oh, wait.

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Just now, NSEP said:

Nice! I do not hear much stories from older people. My grandmother is 80 but she does not say anything.

I have a 91 year old Great Grandma who would always tell stories about WWII and her relationship with my late Great Grandfather. She claims that he was her only boyfriend (and then husband) ever.

 

Back to the main topic though, the Soyuz and Space Shuttle in my childhood were fading things. Every launch went from a spectacular event down to a daily small story. Such a sad thing that space travel isn't that much of a topic anymore.

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2 minutes ago, tater said:

There was then a huge gap before Shuttle (seemed huge at the time). Shuttle was when I was at university, and we (other space geeks) both loved it, and hated it. Loved it because... it was something, and spectacular to watch, and hated it because we saw it as wasting time that should be spent doing things we thought should already be happening (nuclear ferry, etc).

I wish i have or had space geek friends. Now we have Minecraft geeks.

Alot of people loved the Space Shuttle i see! It is a true icon of space travel history, and it was a spectaculair thing. 

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6 minutes ago, James Kerman said:

I was a youngster when Skylab came home.  Some debris landed in Western Australia - I'm sure the teacher told us to duck and cover if it looked like we were going to be hit - but maybe that's just my memory playing tricks.

In 2d grade I remember having a job for special fire drill (can't remember if it had a name, like "bomb drill"), it was my job to close the metal, venetian blinds. We'd then go to the (windowless) hallway, and assume a head between the knees position. In retrospect I realized my job was to keep the "flash" from igniting our crayon drawings on the wall (and likely to mitigate flying glass). Fun times, lol.

There is an option missing, I suppose. Unmanned. The unmanned rockets of my childhood were unambiguously the Titan II, Minuteman, and SS-18, sadly.

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