Re: Why do people look at satellites?

From: George Olshevsky (george.olshevsky@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 09 2011 - 20:01:11 UTC

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    On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:23 PM, tony dinkel <tonydinkel47@hotmail.com> wrote:
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    > Because my dad took me outside on a cold Lompoc winter night, held me up and said "see, there's Echo II".  "It's a big balloon that that reflects radio signals."  He worked on the launch team for the Thor Agena.
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    > >From that came two hobbies and one career.  And since then I've never stopped looking up.
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    > td
    
    As a high-school student, I saw the very same satellite pass over
    Buffalo NY one evening in the early to mid 1960s, well publicized
    passover. Very bright object, elicited sighs of appreciation from the
    group of neighbors I was with.
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