Apollo 11 patch flown on 1st moon landing to launch with astronauts to Mars

Fox ^ | 7/21/14 | Robert Z. Pearlman

[workerbee]

When American astronauts make the next "giant leap" by launching to Mars, they will bring with them a memento from the first moon landing 45 years ago.

NASA on Monday will present the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with a mission patch that Apollo 11 crew mates Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins carried to the moon in 1969, collectSPACE has learned. The patch will be held at the spaceport until the first crew is ready to lift off for the Red Planet on a mission NASA plans for the 2030s.

[driftdiver]

Take a couple of days welfare and it would be paid for.

[driftdiver]

I’m sorry I underestimated the length of time it would require. Rounding up for greed it would take 50 days of welfare to pay the $100 Billion to get us to Mars. Thats just welfare and not any other entitlement program.

[bgill]

By then, they’ll have to take a new flag with them to replace the old one there.

[Truth29]

Are they going to give it to the Chinese or the Russians?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

That was my first thought...

[packrat35]

Actually I heard that they were scripted but he missed a word. He was supposed to say - One small step for “a” man.

He left out the “a”. It actually makes it more meaningful the way he said it.

[Dallas59]

We’re broke. If we sold California to Mexico we might have some bucks left over (after the foreign aid is doled out) to fire a couple of bottle rockets. Case closed.

[tet68]

The way things are going there would need to be a
welfare office on the space ship so the astronauts
could get paid.

[ETL 2]

Well, I won’t be the one to mention Sheila Jackson Lee.

Me neither.

Sheila Jackson Lee
Member of the U.S. House
of Representatives
from Texas's 18th district

On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Jackson Lee made embarrassing news by asking if the Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong.[2]

Prior to the 110th Congress, Jackson Lee served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jackson_Lee#Political_career

[dfwgator]

[GeronL]

NASA is good at making announcements and releasing artistic renderings.... and launching nothing

[ETL 2]

...forgot to mention, the Wikipedia page on Sheila Jackass Lee has changed since I created that post on her. They’ve now removed everything regarding her dumb remarks.

[Rca2000]

It is also “all part of the big plan”...

[Jim Noble]

When American astronauts make the next "giant leap" by launching to Mars

They had better know Mandarin so they can speak to approach control.

[Bobalu]

Werner Von Braun was a genius.. and also blunt and impatient.

He unequivocally stated in the early 60's that not only could he land a man on the moon before 1970 but that he could also land a man on Mars by 1985.

I believe he could have done it.

NASA is a stagnant and troubled government enterprise...the Amtrak of space.

We abandoned all of our most precious dreams and instead wasted our money on a stupid attempt at empire. We do not have the belly for empire. :-(

Another brilliant man, Robert Zubrin, says he could put people on mars for only a small fraction of what NASA thinks it will take to fund a mission. He is correct, IMO.

Zubrin is a man that a Freeper can love! He is not only a brilliant scientist and engineer, he also writes for the National Review. Look over some of his work at this URL.

http://www.nationalreview.com/author/robert-zubrin

[plain talk]

They were his. what he actually said was “one small step for a man ...” but the “a” kind of got chopped off in transmission. I saw one interview where he pointed that out.

[xp38]

A number of years ago on eBay there was a painting of the moon landing along with a patch that went to the moon with Buzz Aldrin including a letter from him for sale. Originally the patch and the painting was donated to a charity auction and sold for around 20 thousand. The winner of the auction was selling it some years later on ebay with a starting bid of 5 thousand IIRC. I was very tempted to bid on it but didn’t and of course now regret not doing so. Again IIRC the ebay sale price was 6 or 7 thousand. From what I had read on the sale page each astronaut on Apollo 11 had half a dozen patches on the various suits they wore. So this one was one of the six that Aldrin wore during Apollo 11. I was quite amazed this was up for sale on ebay. It is not everyday you come across something that went to the moon that you could hang in your den.

[cyclotic]

My son has a patch that flew on the shuttle and a certificate of authenticity. It’s a cool thing to have. He begins college in 3 weeks studying astronautical engineering.

[lee martell]

The Farts would be silent in space.

[Rockpile]

Which shoulder will the Chinese astronauts wear the patch on?