Talk:Timeline (Heute Europa)

Bit of a space buff, so have a question on "Valkyrie-2".

How does the FIRST manned mission with only two men onboard....start construction on a space station?!?!

History provides SOME hints. Gagarin and Glenn spent a few hours in space floating around, but accomplished little else. Voskhod and Gemini launced multi-man missions, but again, orbited and did little else. It wasn't until Salyut was launched by the Russians and Skylab by the Americans in the early-mid-1970s (10 years after the first manned flight), that a space station was constructed.

I'd leave "space station construction" to ATLEAST the seventh, eighth mission. It would take that long for German scientists to figure out if Man could SURVIVE, much less work, in space.

Also, seems unlikely the space station would be named after Wernher von Braun, who was still alive. Most ships, etc. are named after people who have died. "Bismarck" or "Frederick the Great" Station would be more appropos.