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weird historical note [message #117805] Mon, 23 September 2013 18:56
cwayne is currently offline  cwayne
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Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 14:16:29 EST
Article-I.D.: unm-cvax.261
Posted: Tue Feb 19 14:16:29 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 24-Feb-85 01:54:43 EST
Reply-To: cwayne@unm-cvax.UUCP (Chris Wayne)
Organization: Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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     TY ("Tomorrow is Yesterday") was filmed in late November of 1966.
As Uhura was scaning the lower frequencies, the bridge crew hears "...first
manned moon mission launch set for Wednesday.." over the radio.  This was two
years before the first "real" circumlunar mission*.  However, this episode
did not air until 1/26/67, one day before apollo 4 (Grissom, White, Chaffee)
was destroyed by fire.

     Somewhere I heard that this episode takes place in the early seventies.
I didn't believe that so I tried to find out when the F-104 was used as a
major "UFO" interceptor.  every source that I checked could not help me.
This episode was aired just this last sunday and I really keyed into any thing
that might help with dating.  Considering the number of times I've seen this
episode (a lot), when I heard that radio broadcast, it was like seening a brand
new episode.  So, I checked the dates for the early Apollo Missions and it
finally dawned on me that I was right!  It must be one of those cases where you
can't see the trees through the forest type situations.

     I don't know how this roomer got started, but it's easy to understand
someone not being totally sure of his/her dates.  Don't let all this confuse
you if you've never heard of this roomer before.  For me, it was just one of
those little things that you know are wrong, but can't really disprove it and
it sticks with you like a thorn in the side until you do figure it out.

 

   * apollo 7 - 11 oct 68  first test(earth orbit).
     apollo 8 - 21 dec 68  first circumlunar flight.
 


                                                Chris Wayne @ UNM
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