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This is a great series you are doing on the Mercury astronauts.
When Alan Shepard made his flight in 1961, I was still in elementary school and the principal's office, which had a PA system to each classroom, tuned into a network radio broadcast and we listened to the entire flight being described over the air. The entire class sat and listened, fascinated my the idea of a man actually going up in space while we listened live. The entire flight wasn't much longer than just a few minutes, and we took a great amount of pride that an American had made the flight, less than 4 years after the Soviet Union had put the Sputnik satellite in space.
To us kids back then, it was a thrilling event. In retrospect, I now realize we were witnessing history.
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Thanks for the insight...I share your sense of awe and wonder!
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It was just about this time that our local TV broadcasters, CBS and NBC affiliates got together and formed a local educational network with closed circuit TV programs to schools in the area. They even supplied a TV set, and we all went to the auditorium to watch various programs designed for students. As you might guess, we were able to watch later Mercury launches on the TV at school. This was during the Kennedy era, and the closed circuit educational network eventually morphed into broadcast Public Television and PBS.
Today's children are so much more advanced than we were, they are computer-savvy before they even hit elementary school. To me, a dial telephone was a big technological deal when I was their age!
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Esta serie de dibujos de astronautas son parte de algΓΊn trabajo mayor? estas trabajando par alguna productor de cine?
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No estoy seguro de entender su pregunta completamente. SΓ, estoy haciendo una serie.
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