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To: KevinDavis
It was the year before I graduated from high school and this broadcast along with Apollo 11 the following summer inspired me and many more to become involved in aerospace engineering.

That was an awesome time. A time when we never said, as a country, anything was impossible. It was a time when the phrase "Yes we can" was more that a hollow political jingle.

4 posted on 12/08/2009 4:48:16 PM PST by pfflier
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To: pfflier

I watched The Astronaut Farmer today. Not a particularly good movie but I love the dream that seems to be missing from so many hearts these days.


7 posted on 12/08/2009 5:01:17 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: pfflier
I was a junior in college, and I remember listening and watching live video of the lunar surface passing beneath them ... I was going to say "unless I'm dreaming", and in fact I did remember it wrong. I was remembering the straight down views from the low passes they did for landing and rendezvous with the LM. Thanks to youtube ( there's a couple of these ) I can see that this was a higher orbit with a long view of the Tranquility Sea, according to the astronauts just prior to the reading.

But, ah yes, I remember it well.

19 posted on 12/08/2009 7:39:34 PM PST by dr_lew
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