) I guess the next on will be Poland then...
Post by millionairenut on Mar 14, 2021 23:27:03 GMT -5
As I'm sure most, if not all of you know, Jackie and Laurence Luellen Bowen got in the UK hot seat in 2006 for a Valentine's Day special, seeing this question for the Million.
Many of us know the story. They answered incorrectly and lost 468,000, or, so we thought. It turns out both answers were deemed acceptable, or mottos for America. So, the two of them were invited back for a new question, which turned out to be this.
They walked away on this question, which turned out to be C, Gus Grissom. Every time I see that name, I think about the Bowens and their replacement question on the show.
Here's the thing. I myself have aspirations of making it big on Millionaire myself. So, to help expand my knowledge, I do different things to study for Millionaire in hopes of getting my chance in the hot seat some day. One thing I do is check out books from my local library, and I was reading a book this weekend on Neil Armstrong, which mentioned, among other things, Gus Grissom.
However, it also mentioned somebody named Joe Walker, an astronaut I had never heard of. He was the first civilian American in space, with Armstrong being second, but upon trying to learn more about him, I'm seeing stuff that suggests it was he, and not Gus Grissom, that was the first person twice in space.
moonwatchuniverse.tumblr.com/post/620439721626255360/june-8-1966-nasa-testpilot-joseph-walker-died-in
"Joe Walker became the first person to fly to space twice."
*If* you consider the Wiki source reliable.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Grissom
"He was also the second American to fly in space twice, beaten only by Joe Walker with his sub-orbital X-15 flights."
Nasa.Gov says Joe Walker was the first to do it.
www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/Features/walker_hall_of_fame.html
"On July 19, 1963, he flew the X-15 #3 to an altitude of 347,800 feet – nearly 66 miles high – thus qualifying as an astronaut. He was the first civilian and the seventh American in space after the Mercury astronauts. When he established an unofficial world altitude record of 354,200 feet – more than 67 miles – in the X-15 on Aug. 22, 1963, he became the first person to have gone into space twice. His altitude record stood for 41 years until eclipsed by Scaled Composites' Space Ship One in 2004."
A Business Insider article.
www.businessinsider.com/incredible-story-of-joe-walker-2014-8
"He was also the first human in history to make multiple spaceflights: on July 19, 1963, Walker he reached an altitude of 65.8 miles (105.9 km)."
There is stuff that would support the Grissom answer, such as this.
history.nasa.gov/40thmerc7/grissom.htm
"Lieutenant Colonel Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom had been part of the U.S. manned space program since it began in 1959, having been selected as one of NASA's Original Seven Mercury Astronauts. His second space flight on Gemini III earned him the distinction of being the first man to fly in space twice."
This is questionable to me, though, because the Mercury Seven and the Mercury mission from NASA preceded what Joe Walker did, but a Google search tells me Gemini III was in 1965, while Joe Walker's missions into space happened in 1963.
The Million Pound Question was, as written, "Who was the first man to travel into space twice?"
I'm seeing contradicting information, but I'm seeing Joe Walker, based on NASA's own website, that he was the first to have gone into space twice.
Am I missing something here? Did the question writers give the Bowens yet another faulty question? I never noticed this, never thought about this. Am I the only one who noticed that this, too, may have been a faulty question and that the correct answer may not have even been one of the choices? Obviously, their first question for the Million is an infamous example of a faulty question, and many, if not all of us know that Ed Toutant had a faulty question the first time he sat in the hot seat before he came back and won the bonus jackpot.
Please correct me or feel free to disagree, but unless I'm looking into something I shouldn't, I think the Bowens had another faulty question when they came back after their first question was thrown out. Obviously, 15 years later, they didn't go for it, it didn't make much of a difference in the end.
However, this is something that never crossed my mind until now, and now I'm questioning it. I’ve never seen this discussed anywhere before.
Many of us know the story. They answered incorrectly and lost 468,000, or, so we thought. It turns out both answers were deemed acceptable, or mottos for America. So, the two of them were invited back for a new question, which turned out to be this.
They walked away on this question, which turned out to be C, Gus Grissom. Every time I see that name, I think about the Bowens and their replacement question on the show.
Here's the thing. I myself have aspirations of making it big on Millionaire myself. So, to help expand my knowledge, I do different things to study for Millionaire in hopes of getting my chance in the hot seat some day. One thing I do is check out books from my local library, and I was reading a book this weekend on Neil Armstrong, which mentioned, among other things, Gus Grissom.
However, it also mentioned somebody named Joe Walker, an astronaut I had never heard of. He was the first civilian American in space, with Armstrong being second, but upon trying to learn more about him, I'm seeing stuff that suggests it was he, and not Gus Grissom, that was the first person twice in space.
moonwatchuniverse.tumblr.com/post/620439721626255360/june-8-1966-nasa-testpilot-joseph-walker-died-in
"Joe Walker became the first person to fly to space twice."
*If* you consider the Wiki source reliable.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Grissom
"He was also the second American to fly in space twice, beaten only by Joe Walker with his sub-orbital X-15 flights."
Nasa.Gov says Joe Walker was the first to do it.
www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/Features/walker_hall_of_fame.html
"On July 19, 1963, he flew the X-15 #3 to an altitude of 347,800 feet – nearly 66 miles high – thus qualifying as an astronaut. He was the first civilian and the seventh American in space after the Mercury astronauts. When he established an unofficial world altitude record of 354,200 feet – more than 67 miles – in the X-15 on Aug. 22, 1963, he became the first person to have gone into space twice. His altitude record stood for 41 years until eclipsed by Scaled Composites' Space Ship One in 2004."
A Business Insider article.
www.businessinsider.com/incredible-story-of-joe-walker-2014-8
"He was also the first human in history to make multiple spaceflights: on July 19, 1963, Walker he reached an altitude of 65.8 miles (105.9 km)."
There is stuff that would support the Grissom answer, such as this.
history.nasa.gov/40thmerc7/grissom.htm
"Lieutenant Colonel Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom had been part of the U.S. manned space program since it began in 1959, having been selected as one of NASA's Original Seven Mercury Astronauts. His second space flight on Gemini III earned him the distinction of being the first man to fly in space twice."
This is questionable to me, though, because the Mercury Seven and the Mercury mission from NASA preceded what Joe Walker did, but a Google search tells me Gemini III was in 1965, while Joe Walker's missions into space happened in 1963.
The Million Pound Question was, as written, "Who was the first man to travel into space twice?"
I'm seeing contradicting information, but I'm seeing Joe Walker, based on NASA's own website, that he was the first to have gone into space twice.
Am I missing something here? Did the question writers give the Bowens yet another faulty question? I never noticed this, never thought about this. Am I the only one who noticed that this, too, may have been a faulty question and that the correct answer may not have even been one of the choices? Obviously, their first question for the Million is an infamous example of a faulty question, and many, if not all of us know that Ed Toutant had a faulty question the first time he sat in the hot seat before he came back and won the bonus jackpot.
Please correct me or feel free to disagree, but unless I'm looking into something I shouldn't, I think the Bowens had another faulty question when they came back after their first question was thrown out. Obviously, 15 years later, they didn't go for it, it didn't make much of a difference in the end.
However, this is something that never crossed my mind until now, and now I'm questioning it. I’ve never seen this discussed anywhere before.
