Absolutely. She must have been one astoundingly advanced 12 year old, especially a since this was well before the time of newspapers, television, etc. And the Space Race was such a closely guarded secret that it was very rarely discussed publicly, and what little was leaked was of little to no interest to the general public. Certainly not 12 year olds, who are mostly spending their time concerned with simple activities like block building and learning to read!Valentina327 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 12:12 amThat's pretty astute, that at 12 years old she would have known that NASA was recruiting astronauts and had learned of the planned efforts toward space exploration. Some kids are just that advanced!SolidlyAverage wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 2:27 pm This is an excellent example of how uneducated you (and this poster) are!
NASA was founded in 1958, when Clinton was 11. That’s also the year that they first started officially recruiting astronauts, though they didn’t accept any women as candidates for another 20 years (long after the first Soviet female cosmonaut was sent up). It would be really stupid of someone to assume that Clinton couldn’t have written a letter before there was an American astronaut in space, right?
The idea of putting humans into space didn’t suddenly start in 1962, either. Not even in 1958, when official recruitment began. The Space Race started in 1955, pre-NASA, when Clinton was 8. Human space travel was the goal. See, NASA wasn’t the first government organization concerned with space travel, NACA oversaw all of that before it transitioned into a more focused organization and was renamed NASA in response to Sputnik’s successful launch. And both the US and Russia has been strapping animals into rockets with the goal of developing human space travel since the year Clinton was born! We’d been publicly working toward that goal for a long time.
Clinton said she wrote the letter around 1960, when she was 12/13. Yeah, that’s “little girl” to reasonable people. Yes, that’s a couple of years since astronaut recruitment began by an organization named NASA. Yeah, that’s almost two decades before a woman would have been allowed to apply. No, there’s nothing factually wrong with her statement in the least. It’s not even a stretch of the imagination.
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Judging by your attempted sarcasm, your contention is that the average 12 year old is following events such as this that closely, enough so that they're writing to the program sponsor? LOLSolidlyAverage wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 8:56 amAbsolutely. She must have been one astoundingly advanced 12 year old, especially a since this was well before the time of newspapers, television, etc. And the Space Race was such a closely guarded secret that it was very rarely discussed publicly, and what little was leaked was of little to no interest to the general public. Certainly not 12 year olds, who are mostly spending their time concerned with simple activities like block building and learning to read!Valentina327 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 12:12 amThat's pretty astute, that at 12 years old she would have known that NASA was recruiting astronauts and had learned of the planned efforts toward space exploration. Some kids are just that advanced!SolidlyAverage wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 2:27 pm This is an excellent example of how uneducated you (and this poster) are!
NASA was founded in 1958, when Clinton was 11. That’s also the year that they first started officially recruiting astronauts, though they didn’t accept any women as candidates for another 20 years (long after the first Soviet female cosmonaut was sent up). It would be really stupid of someone to assume that Clinton couldn’t have written a letter before there was an American astronaut in space, right?
The idea of putting humans into space didn’t suddenly start in 1962, either. Not even in 1958, when official recruitment began. The Space Race started in 1955, pre-NASA, when Clinton was 8. Human space travel was the goal. See, NASA wasn’t the first government organization concerned with space travel, NACA oversaw all of that before it transitioned into a more focused organization and was renamed NASA in response to Sputnik’s successful launch. And both the US and Russia has been strapping animals into rockets with the goal of developing human space travel since the year Clinton was born! We’d been publicly working toward that goal for a long time.
Clinton said she wrote the letter around 1960, when she was 12/13. Yeah, that’s “little girl” to reasonable people. Yes, that’s a couple of years since astronaut recruitment began by an organization named NASA. Yeah, that’s almost two decades before a woman would have been allowed to apply. No, there’s nothing factually wrong with her statement in the least. It’s not even a stretch of the imagination.
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I'm curios now. I'm going to have to ask the ol' boy if there was an open call to the public for astronauts at that time. Hopefully he was paying attention. He was getting ready to enlist in the army in the late 50s so who knows.hockeymom87 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 9:57 amWeren’t the first astronauts military pilots? The didn’t take civilians in that first batch of astronauts.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-ne ... 180963704/Valentina327 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 10:47 amI'm curios now. I'm going to have to ask the ol' boy if there was an open call to the public for astronauts at that time. Hopefully he was paying attention. He was getting ready to enlist in the army in the late 50s so who knows.hockeymom87 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 9:57 amWeren’t the first astronauts military pilots? The didn’t take civilians in that first batch of astronauts.
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From the link posted by msb: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ ... 180961443/Valentina327 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 10:47 amI'm curios now. I'm going to have to ask the ol' boy if there was an open call to the public for astronauts at that time. Hopefully he was paying attention. He was getting ready to enlist in the army in the late 50s so who knows.hockeymom87 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 9:57 amWeren’t the first astronauts military pilots? The didn’t take civilians in that first batch of astronauts.
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I doubt very much that Hillary was an average 12 year old. But it's funny that people think that what she did was beyond what a 12 year old would be capable of.Valentina327 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 10:43 amJudging by your attempted sarcasm, your contention is that the average 12 year old is following events such as this that closely, enough so that they're writing to the program sponsor? LOLSolidlyAverage wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 8:56 amAbsolutely. She must have been one astoundingly advanced 12 year old, especially a since this was well before the time of newspapers, television, etc. And the Space Race was such a closely guarded secret that it was very rarely discussed publicly, and what little was leaked was of little to no interest to the general public. Certainly not 12 year olds, who are mostly spending their time concerned with simple activities like block building and learning to read!Valentina327 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 12:12 am
That's pretty astute, that at 12 years old she would have known that NASA was recruiting astronauts and had learned of the planned efforts toward space exploration. Some kids are just that advanced!