Yeah, I'm sure the Russians scared the crap out of the world by pretending to put a football with 4 radio aerials into space. Lol
It did. That started the space race and the cold war.
You are old enough not to be so naive but you appear to be quite comfortable with being that way.
I am seriously, seriously dumbfounded why people like you can't see past all of this and see it for the absolute nonsense that it really is.
Is there absolutely nothing in life that you question against what your are offically told to accept and believe?
I do remember what I was young when Yuri Gagarin went is space. It was on the news and paper. They used a improved ICBM rocket to put him in space. There is no reason to believe technology come to a grinding halt. Look at cars, airplanes, trains and ships. They all have progress to bigger, faster and more efficient. Do you think rocket science technology stopped in 1957?
No, I don't suppose it did stop in 1957...but it certainly went backwards when compared to today.
They used a Saturn V to go to the moon, allegedly and then changed to a shuttle as a supposed leap forward, only for the supposed re-usable shuttle to cost more than the Saturn V , pound for pound and payload, yet they are now at the stage of using Russain rockets to take supposed Astronauts into space and returning them via a capsule and parachute, landing them onto hard ground, using a supposed exploding under carriage to arrest their fall. That's some leap forward, don't you think.
It's like giving your son a Ferrari for his birthday, then your next son comes along and you buy him a model T ford. It's ridiculous and should be seen for what it all is...yet here we are in 2014 with internet and the ablity to scrutinise things and yet people like you are still doe eyed over the so called advancement of science that's going backwards.
It's cringeworthy.
It's like the mars mission decades ago when they dropped a rover on mars, allegedly. How did they do it? They parachuted it down in a virtual vacuum, then released the lander surrounded by frigging balloons in a virtual vacuum, to bounce around the surface, then deflate, then out pops a rover to roam about and still communicate up until lately.
Not too long ago they go and land one again, only this time an untested crane type after a parachute drop; retro rockets fire, then a crane drops the rover gently to the ground; releases the bables, only for the retro rocket to thrust upwards and crash land well away from the rover, then off it goes with it's super camera's and JCB digger attachment, only this time an even bigger deal is made of this one, whilst the decades ago one was given a few scoops of news coverage.
They are still doing silly balloon jumps to test space suits, even though in 1969, men could dance about the moon and fall over without worrying about tearing them. There should be no need to test anything out any further, should they. It all works perfect doesn't it?
The so called space program hasn't just went terribly backwards, the space program actors who feed you this stuff, plus the people that employ them to carry it off; actually take you lot for being backward and who can blame them. I mean look at you all. You sit there and argue it's validity when your own frigging common sense should be kicking right in to tell you just what it all is. A joke.
The topic sums you up. A belief so STRONG, it clouds your judgement, because you can't seem to see when you're getting the absolute piss ripped right out of you.