That’s one of my favorite shots. It’s from Apollo 16 and shows mission commander John Young about 4-5 feet off the ground as he snaps off a good Navy salute.
It’s from a now-forgotten time when the United States did great things.
(I was waiting for someone to give me a reason to post the YouTube television footage shot from behind Captain Young when he took those leaps at the beginning of their first EVA.)
It's been quite a week for him, of course, having been the first Shuttle commander following a nine year long wait after his expedition to the Descartes Formation in 1972.
I watched the Right Stuff again on Netflix. Really makes one both angry and in awe.
In awe what we accomplished and the can do attitude we had.
Sad to think that as of last week; we have no way to get in space. We have to ask the Russians for a ride. Just criminal when one thinks about it.
We should by now; having flights to space with “almost” airline like ease.
Instead, among other things; we spend our national treasure fixing up the same urban hellholes we spent money on in the 1960’s.
And they are much worse places today.