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'Sputnik Mania' opens in NY this weekend

I’ll be flying to New York this weekend to join David Hoffman at the premiere of his feature-length documentary about the launch from the USSR 50 years of the first man-made satellite in space. If you’re around please come! It’s a terrific movie, and terribly relevant to today.


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4 Responses to “'Sputnik Mania' opens in NY this weekend”

  1. SpaceIntruderDetecto says:
    March 11, 2008 at 8:30 pm

    Hey Cool! I’m super hyped to see this as you probably already know I’m a fanatic on this stuff. Hope to see you there! For some reason not much mention or fanfare was made of the 50th Anniversary of the first successful American launch of Explorer I on Febuary 1st , 1958 which really got the whole Space Race / Age thing into high gear!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_I

    One other interesting note: The place showing the film
    the IFC Center is actually the old Waverly theater were the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” midnight movie craze started!

  2. BeechwoodAve says:
    March 11, 2008 at 8:33 pm

    Wow… you’re heading round the world more than Sputnik itself these days, thomas! It’d be great if you could recreate the Sputnik show from London…

    Enjoy!

    Beech

  3. Jo @ LittleFfarm Dairy says:
    March 12, 2008 at 7:22 am

    Cor, I’d love to go along -

    but alas, I’m ‘holed up’ here on the Ffarm, acting as impromptu midwife to our herd of goats & flock of sheep. You’re doing as much flying as my husband these days, methinks (& he’s a commercial pilot!).

    Anyway have a great time at the Launch & raise a glass to poor little me, staring at the stars & waiting for babies.

    Any more ‘cranking up’ in the Wheelhouse, btw….?

  4. SpaceIntruderDetecto says:
    March 13, 2008 at 5:07 pm

    Oh BTW I have a real “Soviet” Space helmet and communications bonnet. I can bring that with me If you and David are interested in wearing it! :) ). Seriously I don’t think it was ever in space but probably used in high altitude training missions.

    It looks just like this one :

    http://www.hightechscience.org/russian_gsh-6_pressure_helmet.htm