Hopefully many people visiting this blog enjoy sounds from radio as much as I do, so let me share a wonderful archive of DD1US about the recordings of various spacecrafts, right from the beginning of an era, Sputnik.
The sounds are really spectacular, especially considering how much effort and innovative thinking these simple recordings actually carried at the time and still do!
(Picture courtesy of http://silver-rockets.com/tag/spacecraft/page/2/)
I still find it almost unbelievable, that more than 50 years after, the space programs in both countries starting it all, are on a verge of shutdown ...
What in heavens sake (pun?) happened to our dreams?! Is it really THAT much more important to let small number of ethically challenged but otherwise ingenious minds experiment with free economy, only to come to conclusion that if you steal and cheat, its not gonna work? And this picture above is only part of, what's it gonna cost to bail it all out ...
