Early Space History, it is slipping away
I have just posted an article about the flight of Luna-3 at my web site(http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/trackind/luna3/Luna3story.html). This Soviet spacecraft was the first to image the moon's far side. 
In trying to write a detailed story about this space mission I find that the 15 years of glasnost and post-glasnost has produced only a minimum of details about this pioneering space feat. The principal actors in 1959 are mostly gone by now and they have left little written testimony behind. It seems that the 1990's was the last chance to really document what went on in the early space age. I fear that some archives also are deteriorating. So, to write the history of the early space age, we have to hurry, hurry,..
In trying to write a detailed story about this space mission I find that the 15 years of glasnost and post-glasnost has produced only a minimum of details about this pioneering space feat. The principal actors in 1959 are mostly gone by now and they have left little written testimony behind. It seems that the 1990's was the last chance to really document what went on in the early space age. I fear that some archives also are deteriorating. So, to write the history of the early space age, we have to hurry, hurry,..
posted by Sven Grahn | 12/19/2004
3 Comments:
Sven, I m afraid you are right. Glasnost is over and Russia is rolling back. The analyze of what happened around Ukraine last year shows this very clearly.
Regards
Ron (ronald.landefeld@web.de
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I wasn't thinking about possible problems with freedom-of-speech, just the passage of time that blurs all human memories and lets archives get moved,damaged and dispersed..
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