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Author	Topic: Air & Space: "Space Explorers" 1988 poster
BMckay Member Posts: 3218 From: MA, USA Registered: Sep 2002	posted 02-03-2012 09:03 AM Way back when, Air & Space magazine created a poster with all the cosmonauts and astronauts in order of flight. On that poster, John Glenn is the first American in that order. Did they base the poster on who went into orbit when? That would explain why Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom were not on it or down in the Apollo era. Any thoughts on this poster?
johntosullivan Member Posts: 162 From: Cork, Cork, Ireland Registered: Oct 2005	posted 02-08-2012 02:25 AM Could it be that they are counting only orbital flights?
astro-nut Member Posts: 946 From: Washington, IL Registered: Jan 2006	posted 02-12-2012 03:38 PM I, too, have this poster in my collection and I remember reading somewhere that they were counting orbital flights on the poster. That is why Shepard and Grissom are not first for the U.S. and are included later in the poster line up.

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