To: NCC-1701; E. Pluribus Unum; sionnsar
"Next week on the 21st, it will have been 40 years since the first ever manned flight to the moon launched. The six days that followed were truly memorable." Do you recall the trepidation with which we regarded our astronauts the first time they went behind the moon?
It was called LOS, for loss-of-signal, and for the first time in history, another heavenly body came between a band of intrepid explorers and their home planet. They were cut off from all mankind.
A small step, indeed.
1,419 posted on
12/18/2008 7:20:21 PM PST by
NicknamedBob
(The US sent a million soldiers to Europe to defeat tyrranny. Islam sent fifty million to achieve it.)
To: NicknamedBob
I do remember that, actually. Or think I do.
1,422 posted on
12/18/2008 7:22:27 PM PST by
sionnsar
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To: NicknamedBob
Weren’t they also worried about reentering the atmosphere and burning up.?
1,429 posted on
12/18/2008 7:33:05 PM PST by
ThomasThomas
( Never mind.........it may go both ways...)
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