A monumental feat of Anerican resolve, 45 years ago in the days of vinyl-
Today, in the days of iTunes, we have to depend on comrade Putin just to get into LEO…
I saw it and it was awesome!
It was my Daddy’s birthday! We were at our family’s Fish Camp for the summer, and didn’t have a TV, so we went over to my sister and b-i-l’s house to watch. I’d never seen my Daddy so excited, and enthralled! He just kept remarking to my Mama about how much they’d seen in their lifetimes; he was born in 1917, she in 1919.
Back in the days of when America was an exceptional nation. Freeloading, slothfulness and mediocrity didn’t play well in this country the way it does today.
A monumental feat of Anerican resolve, 45 years ago in the days of vinyl-
Today, in the days of iTunes, we have to depend on comrade Putin just to get into LEO…
I watched it with my grandfather who lived in Kitty Hawk, NC and helped the Wright Brothers pull their plane back up the dune. Now THAT’S how you watch a moon landing! ; )
Scarcely was there a time of greater national pride and honor.
The men of Apollo are/were truly worthy of our utmost respect and admiration. We salute you.
Truly a remarkable achievement, perhaps the greatest of the 20th century (the Manhattan Project being arguably as great). Now the government can’t even build a website despite funds of almost one billion dollars.
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I just returned from KSC for the Special event with Apollo 11 capsule communicator and space shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless. His presentation was way above the level of technical comprehension of the audience, ahmmm, including myself. I asked Bruce privately to tell us what we really wanted to hear, which is - what are a couple juicy stories of what went on in The Mouse Trap? The Mouse Trap, for some who may not know, was THE watering hole in Cocoa Beach for the NASA crowd in the 1950s thru much of the eighties, as I recall, until it closed down.
I was at a place called Hill 55, I Corps, RVN.
"One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
He was making the last step off the descent ladder as he said it.
Who could blame him for being a little excited?
Forty five years later and we would STILL have been on
the moon if it wasn’t for LBJ’s “Great Society”.
That program ate the heart out of America.
There will be a return to the Moon and beyond BUT there is no guarantee that it will be by a spacecraft bearing the Stars&Stripes! I do remember the protest lines in the 1970s by the poverty pimps, wanting the NASA money spent on welfare and the inner-cities! Instead of investing forward, we ate our seed-corn and the politicians bought votes!
History will look back upon this and equate our failure with the Ming China's naval and trade expeditions of Zheng He (1405-32, Seven voyages.) A great effort squandered in politics and shifted priorities! Interesting coincidence, 7 voyages of Zheng He and 7 Apollo Moon launches!
I remember the blurry images, black and white..
Middle of the night..
Houston..
The Eagle has landed.
I was almost 15.
Oh what a night.
A triumph any way ya cut it.
For mankind. Not just for some.
They just don’t write classics like that anymore.
They left for the moon on hubby’s birthday, landed on my mom’s birthday and landed back on earth on my son’s second birthday...which reminds me...I must get a Birthday card tomorrow.
I watched it on a black and white tv
In my mind Chappaquiddick and the moon landing go hand in hand. In one a democrat went under the water and in the other a nation went to the moon!
well i always remember my mum (God rest her soul), telling me to watch it on a B&W Pye TV with her and my dad. She said i would always remember it...
i didnt understand it until she took me outside and pointed at the moon and said they are up there....