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Posted on 04/09/2010 12:31:12 PM PDT by chimera
40 years from now, we can celebrate failure.
As far as I am concerned these heroes are not failures. They completed their mission.
I have met Captain Lovell. He is truly a humble, friendly, gentle man.
It was anything but a failure. Lesser men would not have made it back.
oh, I agree they were not. I was talking about what we are doing today we can celebrate 40 years from now as failure.
Ditto that. I had the honor of having lunch with him a number of years ago. He was impressive, and a vary gracious man. Over the years I have met a number of 'famous' people, from politicians to business people to athletes, and Jim Lovell was the only one I was really impressed with.
Yep, how far have we fallen?
For those of us who lived through that event, as a young kid with his little 2 1/2 in refractor, who watched EVERY launch, I think I can say there is NOTHING in the modern world that compares to it.
Hats off to NASA who did an unbelievable job getting them back.
Hats off to the crew who performed, under the circumstances, flawlessly.
It’s a serious damn shame that almost two generations have grown up and never saw a man walk on the moon.
It’s like every Star Trek you ever saw, all the Sci-Fi movies, all of it, rolled up in to one event. Jaw dropping and awe inspiring at the same time.
But hey, we got I-Pods!!
My mistake. I misread "40 years from now" as "40 years later."
In the end, Apollo 13 came to epitomize the ultimate success. It was incredible that they managed to make it back alive, knowing what we know now.
40 years ago?
Damn, we’re old!
I remember it like it was yesterday. It was just a kid, but I was fascinated by the technology. I am convinced that I am an engineer today because of the Apollo missions.
One of the highlights of my career as a graduate student (in a previous life) was to do some of the first geochemical analysis of lunar samples using neutron activation analysis (thanks to my graduate advisor at the time, who had connections at NASA). Those were heady days.
I’m turning 40 this year...
Lost Moon.
bump
Hey, you got post 13. Good deal. Thanks for the ping. Wish I were 40 again. Alas...
No problem.. I missed out of the good stuff.. Me I saw the Columbia launch. The Challenger blew up
you tape’d em too eh, i think i still have some of those old reel to reel taps around here some place, just no way to play them
Yeah, just my way of “preserving history”. Back then I could never have fathomed a concept as futuristic as home videotape, much less video disk or computers that fit into your hand.
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