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Video: Apollo 11 Landing Site
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Posted on 07/20/2014 4:41:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Forty-five years ago, on July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) touched down on the surface of the Moon. On the eve of this anniversary, NASA has released a new look at the Apollo 11 landing site created using data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

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Looking at that terrain, all I can say is that Neil Armstrong was one hell of a pilot!
1 posted on 07/20/2014 4:41:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUcYQ7slmRw


2 posted on 07/20/2014 4:42:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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They were running on fumes as it were.. What a ride.. And a rush!!


3 posted on 07/20/2014 4:55:42 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

Cool.


4 posted on 07/20/2014 4:56:21 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: BenLurkin
Yep, would have been nasty to have one skid end up on a boulder.

Did not have a TV back then, so I missed it all. Was so estranged from society after just getting back that I was only peripherally aware something was going on.

5 posted on 07/20/2014 5:01:57 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: BenLurkin; Jack Hydrazine; cripplecreek; GraceG; SevenofNine

The Moon Landings are the Greatest Single Achievement EVER in the history of mankind.


6 posted on 07/20/2014 5:07:21 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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That’s a fact.


7 posted on 07/20/2014 5:08:14 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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too bad we will never go into space again.


8 posted on 07/20/2014 5:09:32 PM PDT by equalator
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BUMP!


9 posted on 07/20/2014 5:09:39 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: BenLurkin

bump


10 posted on 07/20/2014 5:18:50 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: BenLurkin

My thoughts exactly.


11 posted on 07/20/2014 5:25:38 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
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To: equalator

Never fear, “we” will


12 posted on 07/20/2014 5:27:31 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: equalator

Thanks to Dear Leader Obama ! And he totally shutdown the rest of the space program ! I know his tribute was pretty insulting to the late Neil Armstrong !

> too bad we will never go into space again.


13 posted on 07/20/2014 5:28:40 PM PDT by CORedneck (P.C. is a form of punishment we been dealing with for way too long ! Overthrow it !)
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To: BenLurkin

Us landing on the moon was the coolest thing - I just wish there would have been something cool to find there...like maybe an elephant tusk or an old phaser set on “stun”.

We should go back and paint something on it that you can see with a decent telescope.


14 posted on 07/20/2014 5:34:50 PM PDT by DJlaysitup
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you mean like put an advertisement on the moon?
15 posted on 07/20/2014 5:41:37 PM PDT by sjm_888
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I just wish you could get it in the states, let alone the moon.


16 posted on 07/20/2014 5:56:20 PM PDT by 03A3 (The reset is gonna be epic.)
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17 posted on 07/20/2014 5:59:15 PM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (I live in NJ....' Nuff said!)
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To: bigbob

wink


18 posted on 07/20/2014 6:10:00 PM PDT by equalator
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There is that ‘65 Rambler to be found.....


19 posted on 07/20/2014 6:20:06 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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The Moon Landings are the Greatest Single Achievement EVER in the history of mankind

Harnessing electricity must be a close second then...and controlling the atom can't be far behind.

20 posted on 07/20/2014 7:01:54 PM PDT by terycarl
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