Big enough to see by eyesight only when it went over! I remember watching it from my front yard as it orbited. We could make it any size, and inflate it like a kids toy bounce house. It could just unfold as it inflated.
Now, for something you never saw before! This is a commerative stamp I bought about the Echo Satellite.
smithlabs! no sir I ain't never seen nothin like that before, that's awesome!
that is super cool. I never heard of this balloon satelite, when was it doing that cruising over when you could see it?
I got this stamp, because it was the first object I saw in Orbit! It was bright, and Big, and The USA had put it up there in 1960! I remember sitting in My Dad's lap, while he pointed it out to me! That was a great time, and very exciting!
No problem, it was just a big mylar balloon in a small package; that is inflated in orbit. Cheap shade.
a mylar baloon that's a hundred something..how big did you say that thing was?
Big enough to see by eyesight only when it went over! I remember watching it from my front yard as it orbited. We could make it any size, and inflate it like a kids toy bounce house. It could just unfold as it inflated.
Now, for something you never saw before! This is a commerative stamp I bought about the Echo Satellite.
smithlabs! no sir I ain't never seen nothin like that before, that's awesome!
that is super cool. I never heard of this balloon satelite, when was it doing that cruising over when you could see it?
I got this stamp, because it was the first object I saw in Orbit! It was bright, and Big, and The USA had put it up there in 1960! I remember sitting in My Dad's lap, while he pointed it out to me!
That was a great time, and very exciting!
:)I was 6 years old in 1960.
As was I...you old Man you! What month?
Wait we aren't old, we are vintage, like a fine wine (not a wino, LOL)!