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Journal Journal: Forgeting Gegarin 2

Journal by Charles Dodgeson on Thursday July 05, 2007 @03:11PM

The quote on the bottom of Slashdot's pages today (July 5, 2007, 0805 GMT) says

Why don't you fix your little problem... and light this candle? -- Alan Shepherd, the first man into space, Gemini program

But of course, Shepard was the second earth man in space. The first was Yuri Gagarin.

Journal Journal: WTF is this?

Journal by Charles Dodgeson on Sunday February 10, 2002 @03:06AM

Today, I inaugerated my /. journal. I did so with absolutely no clue as to what it could possibly be good for.

"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight