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ubt poked and prodded quite a bit i found no reports about whether they enjoyed their history making travels but miss baker a squirrel monkey lived at the us space and rocket center in alabama for many years entertaining visitors and receiving a hundred letters a day from school children and she also appeared on more than 20 network tv shows she was married twice her keeper insisted on the ceremonies couldn t have a space hero living in sin while on public display she refused to wear a white wedding train for her second wedding she was no doubt still in mourning her first partner big george who had died just 3 months previously she evidently thrived on her celebrity attaining the record for longest living squirrel monkey and was buried at the us space and rocket center in 1984 people still leave bananas on her grave misses able and baker first monkeys to survive spaceflight marfusa miss martha first rabbit in space accompanied by her fellow space travelers otvazhnaya brave and snezhinka snowflake early us reconnaisance satellites were somewhat less successful than miss baker and miss martha the soviet rabbit evidently this is a picture of the sunlit pacific and some cloud cover off the coast of mexico i guess we just have to take nasa s word for it discoverer 4 was the first of the kh 1 series to be launched kh for keyhole cute name for spy satellites and it was lost before it reached orbit sending rocket scientists back to the drawing board discoverer 6 managed to make it into orbit and managed to send back the first picture of earth taken from space as you can see that needed some work as well we are all spoiled by the clarity and precision of modern satellite photography but they had to start somewhere and the same solar technology developed to power those satellites is currently powering the computer i m typing on vanguard 2 was the first cloud cover satellite successfully put into orbit a win for the us in the space race its goal was to measure sunlight reflected from cloud cover and from the earth s surface it sent information for nearly a month till the batteries ran down the satellite is still in orbit being tracked for studies of atmospheric drag and the gravity field a bit closer to home but still up in the air american airlines ushered in the jet age by scheduling passenger service between la and nyc with its new boeing 707 astrojet and get this the trip took only 4 hours i have never flown from coast to coast in either direction in less than 5 hours could it fly faster because there were so few planes in the air were they just pushing those jet engines because they hadn t worked out too many regulations maybe the country has settled and stretched out a bit over the years happens to the best of us sadder air travel related news on february 3 1959 the music died at least that s what don mclean told us in 1971 with his huge hit american pie at 8 minutes and 42 seconds it held the record for being the longest song to reach number one on the billboard charts for nearly 50 years till taylor swift managed it to top it with a 10 minute song in 2021 maybe time in quarantine conditioned people to just sit and listen to stuff mclean was a newspaper delivery boy at the time of the plane crash that killed buddy holly that ll be the day richie valens la bamba and j p richardson jr the big bopper chantilly lace and pilot roger peterson the memory of the newspaper headlines later inspired the song that has been described as one of the most successful and debated songs of the 20th century i never liked it still don t it was super annoying when it was on the radio so much it was so long and i didn t care enough to try to figure out what the lyrics meant anyway it was a very sad accident bad weather bad judgment bad luck all around valens won his seat on the plane in a coin toss waylon jennings gave up his seat so the big bopper who had the flu wouldn t have to ride on the cold bus as they toured the wintery midwest buddy holly was a newlywed and had a baby on the way the pilot had not quite passed his certification for flying with instruments alone and visibility was bad and he didn t receive a complete weather report the only positive thing to come out of this was that after holly s wife and his mother learned of his death on the news authorities adopted the policy that seems only natural to us these days to wait until family members are informed before releasing such information to the press lock the boat s water travel also made the news in 1959 with the completion of the st lawrence seaway which connected the st lawrence river to lake ontario which was already connected to the other great lakes via the great lakes waterway making it possible for large ships to move from the north atlantic inland all the way to lake superior the project took 22 000 workers five years to complete as they moved 210 million cubic yards of earth and rock and poured over 6 million cubic yards of concrete and a good bit of engineering work clearly went into designing the locks needed to lift ocean vessels 246 feet above sea level as they make the trip between montreal and lake ontario the seaway is considered one of the engineering marvels of the 20th century my parents never took me to canada when i was a child but i was aware of the great lakes as part of the relatively local geography from very early on my grandfather was an avid fisherman and i can remember joining him and grandma on faraway fishing trips up north i especially remember being at eye level with a still alive northern pike as grandad posed for a picture with it it had lots of teeth the scenic and icy st lawrence river as it flows through quebec city anyway i haven t seen the locks of the seaway but i have seen the st lawrence in winter lots of ice the weather alone must have presented plenty of construction challenges even before figuring out how to lift giant ships up a sort of watery stairway and here s a link to a cool map i found while searching for information kind of like a flight tracker but for ships the mighty fin i m sure at any time you might see a variety of fins when traveling along the st lawrence seaway or across the great lakes but in 1959 you were also likely to see plenty of tailfins when motoring on us highways when that particular design detail reached its apex i m not sure if wearing gloves and fur stoles when riding around in cars was also at its apex at this time but they look nice in the picture though this big and splashy style was extremely popular in 59 the future was already driving around the corner imported cars were rapidly gaining in popularity including small economy cars like the volkswagen beetle and the renault dauphine and while britain s brand new austin morris mini didn t have much presence on us roads that year when it first came out i m pretty sure you know what it looks like now and i know you see more minis than you do giant cars with tailfins but 1959 car owners were sold on the design even expecting self driving cars of the future to have them as seen in the closer than we think comic strip from feb 22 1959 found on the very interesting site paleofuture time to change the flag whether traveling by air by sea or in giant cars with big tailfins this year brought us vacationers two more states to explore more than 90 years after its purchase from russia and transitioning from department of alaska district of alaska alaska territory alaska finally became a state in january of 1959 hawaii followed in august after spending 60 years as a us territory as a new state it quickly modernized through construction and a rapidly growing tourist economy and now tourists outnumber locals 7 to 1 seems that there was a lot of politics involved in the decisions to bring in both new states president eisenhower was more than a little concerned about alaska s proximity to the soviet union just over 50 miles across the bering strait others had concerns about how the new senators from each state would vote on civil rights legislation it ended up being kind of a package deal politically speaking since most assumed hawaii would vote republican and alaska would vote democrat keeping the senate nice and balanced i guess that kind of worked even though they had the expected party affiliations backwards and as far as proximity to the ussr went the closer than we think cartoonist arthur radebaugh presents us with an illustration of senator warren magnuson s wa idea for a bridge or tunnel across the bering strait the senator confidently forecasts that the tourists who one day will drive this route will be our best ambassadors not all the wars are cold i m pretty confident that president eisenhower was not planning to physically connect us to the ussr anytime soon the communist threat was once again a major topic in his state of the union address and aside from the persistent ideological and technological battles between the us and ussr there was plenty of other stuff going on red menace wise it became up close and personal when fidel castro came to power after the cuban revolution for the first time a for real communist country in the west right off the florida coast and communists vs good guys struggles were ramping up in the east as well in july chester ovnand and dale r buis became the first americans killed in action in vietnam and that nightmare was just beginning over in tibet the 14th dalai lama received a nice invitation from a chinese general to come see a performance by a chinese dance troupe but when he was asked to come see this performance at a military headquarters and to give his bodyguards the night off he became a bit suspicious and decided to dress up as a soldier and walk over the himalayas to india instead an escape story that landed him on the cover of time magazine the dalai lama is still in exile in india and still defying the chinese communist government in 2015 the new york times reported that he speculated that he would not reincarnate in any political or governing role probably just as a monk in a monastery the chinese government responded by demanding that decision making power over the reincarnation of the dalai lama and over the end or survival of this lineage resides in the central government of china but i m pretty sure they ll have a hard time enforcing that putting tensions between our countries aside sort of vice president nixon visited moscow and engaged in some impromptu discussions with premier nikita khrushchev as they walked around a us trade show part of a cultural exchange to promote understanding or at least to show off the cool and useful gadgets you get with capitalism the discussions about the merits of capitalism vs communism were known as the kitchen debate since they took place in the model of a state of the art kitchen that a typical american could afford the whole encounter was filmed by american press and aired in both nations khrushchev scoffed at many of the kitchen gadgets as elaborate or awkward but interestingly enough when he visited the us a few months later the thing that really grabbed his attention at the ibm campus was not any of the computer tech he loved the self service cafeteria so much that when he got home he instructed soviet factories to build cafeterias just like it during their friendly debate in moscow khrushchev predicted nixon s grandchildren would live under communism and nixon predicted khrushchev s would live in freedom and in 1996 nixon s grandson and khrushshchev s granddaughter met up to share stories and help kick off an exhibit on the legacy of the cold war at the nixon library nina khrushcheva said nixon was right and khrushchev was wrong she later noted i believe in circles we have made a circle and we are done it is beautiful that it has concluded this way and here we are two grandchildren talking together more recently she stated that she was embarrased by the invasion of ukraine and believed her grandfather would think it despicable that russian troops attacked a city that he had rebuilt after wwii obviously at the age of one i had no sense of any of this as it was happening and my parents were never what i would call overtly political or even especially concerned about what was going on in other parts of the world so it s not like we ever discussed the threat of communism or prepared ourselves for apocalyptic nuclear war scenarios but i do know that i absorbed a sense of distrust and fear without anybody saying it outright i grew up knowing that the communists were out to get me to get all of us but in general i didn t worry about it not much one bright and shining agreement in 1959 provided hope that nobody was going for complete world domination the antarctic treaty was signed by 12 countries including the us and ussr recognizing that it is in the interest of all mankind that antarctica shall continue forever to be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene or object of international discord 44 more countries have since acceded to the treaty so if you ever get really nervous about the state of world politics you know where to go for some peace and quiet new stuff and nervous about steel a few standouts in the world of us business and new products that had an impact long after 1959 women were freed from the need for garters garter belts when the first nylon pantyhose became available i m glad they were no longer called panti legs by the time i had to wear them and i m even gladder that i haven t felt the need to wear them for the past 20 years but still they were a big step forward when hosiery clad legs were the way to go a crowd of men proudly displaying a machine that will go on to be run by secretaries wearing panti legs offices around the world got an efficient way to increase desk clutter and crowd file cabinets when the xerox 914 the first successful commercial plain paper copier was introduced to the public successful seems a somewhat relative descriptor the model could produce 7 copies per minute but it had a tendency to catch fire when overheated the xerox company provided a scorch eliminator basically a fire extinguisher along with the copier the copier was mechanically complex and required a good deal of technical support in a new yorker interview a secretary said that a xerox technical rep told her not to be afraid of the 914 because the machine would sense her fear and like a mischievous child misbehave i can t decide whether the tech guy actually believed that or was just being funny or thought that it was the best way he could explain things to a woman in july of 1959 the united steel workers of america went on strike for 116 days they were fighting for the right to keep management from deciding how many workers could be assigned to a task or to introduce new rules or machines that might result in reduced hours or numbers of employees with more than 85 of us steel production shut down for 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