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Rusty Edge
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2018 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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Salty Dog wrote: | I am going to guess they spotted the Japanese Fleet as it steamed towards Midway Island.
They also picked up pilots whose planes were damaged or malfunctioning and could not make it back to the aircraft carrier or base. |
Both true.
The other two movie worthy incidents were finding the Bismark, and rescuing the survivors of the USS Indianapolis ( torpedoed and sunk on the return leg of the top secret mission to deliver the atomic bomb. Nobody knew where it was. )
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Salty Dog
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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Alan Sheppard was the first Us astronaut in space. Who was the second one? |
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fleetp
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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Salty Dog wrote: | Alan Sheppard was the first Us astronaut in space. Who was the second one? |
Was it Gus Grishom? |
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Salty Dog
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry to take so long, I was camping at tee square dance campground and the is no internet or cell coverage.
Yes, it was Gus Grissom, your turn..... |
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fleetp
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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Alan Sheppard was first.
Gus Grissom was second.
Who was the third American astronaut in space? |
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Salty Dog
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:07 am Post subject: |
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That one is easy as well. I will wait to have someone else answer it. |
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Roland
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2018 3:05 am Post subject: |
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John Glenn? |
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Salty Dog
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2018 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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Roland is right, I remember when he was the first US Astronaut to orbit the Earth and he made three round trips. |
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2018 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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Roland wrote: | John Glenn? |
Correct, it's your turn, Roland. |
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Roland
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2018 8:03 am Post subject: |
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How many manned Apollo missions were launched? Closest answer wins. |
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2018 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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I would say close to twenty but at least one of those flights resulted in deaths and others may not have achieved their objective. |
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2018 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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I think the first few did not count. I don’t remember really low numbers and the last one was either 15 or 16. so, I will guess 12. |
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Rusty Edge
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 3:48 am Post subject: |
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More from memory than any thing else… Official guess 8 . |
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Roland
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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 6:57 am Post subject: |
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Salty Dog wins. The answer is 11, so he missed it by 1.
The first manned Apollo mission was number 7, and the last was number 17. Apollo 1 did not launch because the astronauts died in a fire during a test a few weeks before the scheduled launch. There were no Apollo missions numbered 2 and 3, and missions 4 through 6 were unmanned. |
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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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Name three types of lodging structures used by Native North Americans. I can think of six offhand. Name three of them. |
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