"NO WAY!"
Posted on 12/01/2012 6:40:27 AM PST by chimera
http://www.apollo18movie.net/
"NO WAY!"
Thanks for the great post.
As a 11yr. old boy, I witnessed my first launch, Apollo 11.
I witnessed every moon landing mission launch from the central Florida area.
My most memorable was Apollo 17 night launch. I was approx. 6 miles west of the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center.
The power of those 5 engines would rattle your chest like you couldn’t believe!
Great post. Thank you.
Thanks for the ping. This is a very interesting, informative, and well-written article.
Thanks chimera. An ‘extra, extra’ ping to APoD members.
Louis who? ;’)
Thanks raybbr. Of course, the whole thing was faked. /s
Actual it was Ludwig and Cluck! Ain’t history funk?
I’m so jealous. That is one sight I wish I could have seen. I used to watch all of thgese on the TV and make recordings of the audio on an old reel-to-reel tape recorder (no DVDs or VCRs or DVRs back then). Oh, well, maybe in the next life...
Thats right! O.J. Simpson even made a movie about it! I still can’t believe how many Americans think we landed men on the moon....
Louis Lewis maybe. LOL I don’t know why I didn’t catch that myself.
During the period that NASA flew operational flights during Apollo, it always amazes me how few problems were involved that would impact crew safety. Out of the fourteen Saturn V flights, only three engines went out early, two J-2 second stage engines on Apollo 6 and one J-2 second stage engine on Apollo 13. Beyond that, everything worked with near perfection. There were literally millions of parts in all those launch vehicles and THEY ALL WORKED.
A true testament to the Spirit of Apollo. Every single person involved with the planning, execution, administering, and flying did a job that today would be hard to duplicate. There is no national will to do that job again. And that is sad. Unlike Makayla of the 2012 US Women’s Olympic Team, I AM IMPRESSED. Reading the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal today, it is amazing how everything worked. NASA of the day, you did good.
It’s even harder to believe that generations of Americans have been born since then and not seen an American walk on the moon.
That started about the same time the New Left started hijacking the Democrat Party, and they already had a lot more influence on the media than we realized.
When it was a choice (for us) between Huntley/Brinkley and Walter Cronkite, the growing cry already was "Don't send money into space when we have problems right here on Earth".
Who knows what we could have done if we had spent the money on space?
Instead, LBJ's "Great Society" became the rathole, evolving into the present vortex sucking up funding (and, ultimately, so much else).
Consider: The SR-71 was designed in the 1950s, the stealth projects were likely on the drawing board in the '60s. The two models for Lunar exploration had been discussed, one of building a space station first, then launching the lunar missions from there, versus doing what we did (round trip capable vehicles for each mission--surface to surface and back). While the latter was chosen as 'cheaper', in the long run it might not have been the less expensive route.
After the 'spend the money on the problems here on Earth' campaign, the same people who had argued against spending the money 'up there' decried the absence of a space station or lunar colony with comments like "What do we have to show for all that? a few rocks?", in what I am now sure was just one facet of a concerted Communist campaign to weaken all that was America.
If you look at all else going on at the time under the aegis of The Cold War, America was heavily under attack, philosophically.
Nuclear Disarmament (the "Peace" movement, with the symbol) morphing into the antiwar movement attacking our Troops and the mission of stopping the spread of Communism in Vietnam, the popularization of drug use (Hippies--Peace and "Love"--via The Pill, (the "alternative" to Roe v. Wade) and the slide into sexual abandon--which is even now just an unnatural extrapolation of what happened then), the hijacking of the Conservation movement, which passed through a brief "Ecology" phase on its way to the rabid dirt-worship of modern-day Environmentalism, and now we see the venerable GOP, once the bastion of the anti-Communists, crumbling with the rot that is "Progressivism".
We have the same enemy, an enemy which wears many faces, some shiny and bright with the starry-eyed dreams or true believers, some cruel and twisted visages, but all heads of the same monster.
We needed Space, as much as we needed the ability to see what was over the next hill, to genuinely explore and benefit from our labors, not just shuffle along a well-groomed trail.
We have passed laws which limit or destroy the incentive to explore so much as our back yards and fine those who might reward themselves with the chance discovery of anything from a flower, a seashell, a neat rock, fossil, an arrowhead, a mineral crystal, or the minute remnants of an ore vein, panned from some creek.
The spirit of Louis and Clark has been under attack for a long time.
Thanks for posting!
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