Re:It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing
by gcanyon on Saturday January 13, 2024 @02:07PM
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> every metric
Sure, except:
- First spacecraft to detect/study the Van Allen belt
- First solar-powered satellite
- First polar-orbit satellite
- First photograph of Earth from orbit
- First satellite recovered from orbit
- First spy photos from space
- First aerial recovery of an object returning from orbit
- First great ape in space
- First pilot-controlled space flight
- First successful planetary flyby (Venus)
- First spaceplane
- First reusable piloted spacecraft
- First geosynchronous satellite
- First geostationary satellite
- First piloted spacecraft orbit change
- First successful Mars flyby mission
- First rendezvous of manned spacecraft
- First spacecraft docking
- First direct-ascent (first orbit) rendezvous
- First (and only) human orbit of the Moon
- First (and only) humans to land on the Moon
- First spacecraft to orbit another planet (Mars)
- First spacecraft sent on solar escape trajectory
- First spacecraft to enter the asteroid belt
- First Jupiter flyby
- First Mercury flyby
- First Saturn flyby
- First untethered spacewalk
- First Uranus flyby
- First Neptune flyby
- First Pluto flyby
Sure, except:
So, yeah, vanity.