>         Hello, Bo!

Hi Michael,

>  BS> Aha. In this side of the world you doesn't hear too mutch of russian
>  BS> cosmonautists, as of american astronauts. That's pretty sad.
> 
> That's because US propaganda is much more effective than Russian one :)

In the western world yes.

> Ask wherever in the world about International Space Station, and most
> people
> would think it's an American one, while Russian participation was and still
> is
> quite big. And similar situation is in other fields of space programs. At
> least, here in Russia most people know that Americans were the first (and
> only)
> guys on the Moon, while how much Americans know that the first man in space
> was
> Y.Gagarin and the first satellite ("sputnik") was Soviet?

Actually sometimes I think of, it's sad that they couldn't share their
knowledge, think of how far we would be in space research.

Bo



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