Disney's Man in Space 3 of 8 - How Rockets Work

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I could be wrong but I KNOW I've heard that voice somewhere...I'm assuming another Disney cartoon.

Scientist duck character Ludwig Von Drake, perhaps?

yes!! Duh, and re-read the 2nd post!

"I said we have thousands of "outposts""

is there so much difference beween saying "we already had thousands" and "we have thousands"??

No, there isnt.

Like I said, you can keep rewriting it (as you have twice now). Yes, 'already' DOES make a diff. Give it up. You misspoke or you didn't realize. Now you rewrite. Wanna do it again? Still doesn't change what you 1st wrote. :-)

Thats quite obvious. You missed my point.

"first outpost in men´s conquest of space" (they believed that soon we would have conquered the solar system)

then I said we have thousands of "outposts" (satellites), and yet, in 2009, we hardly can say we have outposts elsewhere, since regretably, the space race has stagnated and people are not interested anymore in funding space exploration big projects.

Nuh uh. You said we 'already' had thousands in orbit, as if you thought this was happening now. You can rewrite it all you want... :-)

1955, yes, that was the year I was born. Now I do feel old and yet when I was a kid during the 1960s, I thought we'd be trekking to Jupiter by 2001. We were supposed to be on Mars by 1982.
Still, as you said 1955 was two years before Sputnik. I always wondered if the Soviets pushed to launch their rocket before ours after all the promotion of a possibility of a space travel this program gave to the general public.

Cool!