Posted on 07/20/2005 12:49:32 PM PDT by WaveMan
Thank you. It still gives me goosebumps when I think about it. :)
Do you suppose he will ever be charged with violating the civil rights of Mary Jo K.
It's amazing they accomplished all the fake pics without photoshop. </ducking>
I remember staying up and watching it on TV. My brothers and sisters fell asleep, and I knew, even then, that the world would never be the same. But sadly, we still haven't stepped on Mars.
Do you really believe this crap??? The landing was staged /sarc
The NSC has/had really big computers.
To date, no landings planned by Islamic states.
The guy who was in charge of designing the airpacks they wore on the moon lived 2 houses down from me when I was growing up.
Or returned to the Moon.
Someone got hold of a newspaper with the headlines...and we tried to explain to our Tiger Scouts (former VC and NVA who had come over to our side to scout for us) that America had sent men to the moon..and that Americans had walked on the moon...
They never did believe us...of course when I tried to show them pictures of my granddad's lake home and my brother swimming in that lake in summer and ice fishing and driving his car on winter's frozen water (ice) they never did believe that either...ice cubes they believed in ...whole lakes frozen over was quite another matter.
Kinda like helicopters and jets were one thing...manned rockets to the moon....they couldn't quite get onboard.
We returned a few times, but yes... we haven't really done **** for 30 years.
The Saturn V. 7.5 million pounds of American fury.
Of all the people that said we faked the moon landing, the Russians never did. They read our telemetry there and back, and they knew.
Saw Appollo 13 lift off. That was some powerful rocket for sure, even from the distance we were.
I was in North Pole, Alaska (Moose Creek) and I listened to the landing on the radio.
There is still so much to do.
I recommend the HBO series "From the Earth to the Moon" to everyone if you have not seen it yet.
Sheila Jackson-Lee is preparing a statement to commemorate the occasion. Her spokesperson says she has updated information regarding the Pathfinder locating the U.S. Flag.
I agree
The acting is excellent
There is a good insight into Buzz Alrin
He landed at the same time by the way (;^)
The is the 36th anniversary of one of the greatest technical acheivements of mankind. And we, the United States of America, did it. One of NASA's finest hours. As Tom Hanks said at the end of Apollo 13, "when will we go back, and who will it be?" I hope it's not to far down the road.
The flag that Neil and Buzz planted in the Sea of Tranquility was picked out by a secretary in the astronaut office. Story has it that Deke Slayton and others went around flag shops and came back with about 100 flags. The secretary was asked to go into a room and pick one out. The one she picked wnet to the moon with Apollo 11.
The flag that went on Apollo 17, the last landing, was the one in the Mission Control room during Apollos 11 through 16. Gene Cernan has said he'd gladly turn over the title "last man on the moon" to someone else. I hope he lives long enough to see that happen.
It is fitting that James Doohan "Scotty" of Star Trek fame passed away this morning on the Anniversary of the moon landing.
Still ranks up at the top as one of mankind's greatest accomplishments. And back in the days when technology was simpler.
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Yes indeed -- a truly wonderful experience. But sometimes I wonder if all the technology we have now is making space travel less safe, rather than safer. Yes, there were mishaps and tragedies before (the one that caught fire, killing the astronauts and the near tragedy of Apollo 13), but it seems to me that the shuttles are being plagued with safety issues more so than the prior craft. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how it looks to me.
"There is a good insight into Buzz Alrin
He landed at the same time by the way (;^)"
And Mike Collins above too!
He had to contemplate coming home alone as a possibility.
"...He landed at the same time by the way (;^)..."
If you really want to be very, very, technical about it, it was determined the Eagle touched down on the right and front landing gear. Since Aldrin was the LMP on the right side, he touched down before Neil. That comes from the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. A VERY EXCELLENT site for space junkies. Also, Aldrin spoke the first words from the surface of the moon when he said "contact light". There were six foot probes that extended from three of the four footpads. At contact, the descent engine was cut off. the rest is history.
That is:
"...The Saturn V. 7.5 million pounds of American fury...."
And the most beautiful launch vehicle ever to fly.
I was living at home with parents and brother at the time. My maternal grandmother was also living with us. She was terminally ill with cancer and being given plenty of pain medication that would knock her out for hours at a time. However, she insisted upon skipping her medication so that she would be awake for this momentous event and she managed to see it even though she was in terrible pain. She passed away a few months later, but I still won't forget the look of joy and awe on her face when she saw the landing. I was always grateful that she lived to see it.
lol..I guess the moon really is made of cheese. That was funny.
"but it seems to me that the shuttles are being plagued with safety issues more so than the prior craft. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how it looks to me."
It took many centuries to explore and learn to traverse the seas of this world. The ocean is littered with wrecks of these vessels. We are very new at space exploration, we only learned powered flight a mere 100 years ago. Risk will always be part of exploration. Blood and treasure are always a cost to be paid, and often the frontiers we choose to explore may not be as risky as the failings of human beings can be. But the greater cost is to not explore at all. None of us would be here if not for those brave souls before us that sailed on ships that may not come home, That took flight on imperfect wings, that looked to the horizon and said, I will go there. I must.
It cant move fast enough for me of course, Just wish I could live 200 years or so to see where it all will go.
Things are looking up. Shuttle will not be are ride forever. New vehicles are in the planning stages to take us much farther then Shuttle every could.
I remember going on a school field trip (circa 1968 or so) to the Grumman plant in Bethpage, NY .. and seeing the LEM landers being built. There were several of them within the plant (hanger??) being assembled, they looked like skeletons!
To this 8 year old's young eyes, at the time, having marvaled at what what had been accomplished in outer space with the ambitious Gemini project and its subsequent Apollo missions, I was mightily impressed :)
Could be.
But, it is possible too that there are many more shuttle missions than Apollo.
You are correct !
I have that site bookmarked, the image library and the videos and movies are great
I was 11 yrs old on July 16 1969
truly a moon child (;^)
See my post #38 about Spacecraft Films. You'd REALLY love those.
My fourth grade teacher had those words on her bulletin board when we started school the following September.
She got it right.
Mrs. Fornes. Old Irish Catholic tough-as-nails battle axe.
I loved her.
Check this out. http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen3/f29a.html
Which still doesn't make sense. He should have said, "a man".
There is something reassuringly or depressingly human about the fact that the very first thing a human being did after first setting foot on the moon was to make a grammatical error.
Then it all makes sense!
The truth is out there.;)
Hey, isn't that a Starbucks, right next to Apollo 15?
Neil Armstrong greets Jimmy Doohan at a "Farewell to Scotty" gala in L.A. last August.
For a fact, Neil did boldly go where no man had gone before...
If I remember correctly they had only a few seconds of fuel left . If the fuel had run out they would have crashed on the moon .
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