And Betty Skelton
My guess is if Hillary tried she wouldn't cut it. NASA doesn't take whiners.
Posted on 02/08/2015 6:07:13 AM PST by Kartographer
After Neil Armstrong's death, his widow, Carol, discovered a white cloth bag in a closet, containing what were obviously either flight or space related artifacts. She contacted Allan Needell, curator of the Apollo collection at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, and provided photographs of the items. Needell, who immediately realized that the bag—known to the astronauts as the Purse - and its contents could be hardware from the Apollo 11 mission, asked the authors for support in identifying and documenting the flight history and purpose of these artifacts. After some research it became apparent that the purse and its contents were lunar surface equipment carried in the Lunar Module Eagle during the epic journey of Apollo 11.
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Aside from the historic camera, I don’t have any problem with someone who risked his life keeping a few “mementos of the trip” around. He was entitled to have his own “swag bag” IMO.
Either that or he "Knows a guy on The Strip who...".
Any green cheese?
I remembered that event, too.
I was sitting at a bar, drinking the local Helles Bier in Burghausen, Germany, watching the event on TV.
+1
I was at Fort Lewis in basic training, it was a Sunday and my dad came down to the visitors center with a 6-pack of coke, a bucket of chicken and a transistor radio and we listened excitedly.
She also claimed to have attempted to enlist in the Marine Corps, as I recall, only to be turned away because she was a girl.
Another one her whoppers, while pursuing a NY seat in the Senate, was claiming to always have been a secret fan of one of the NY baseball teams. (Sorry, don’t remember the name. Not a baseball fan.)
I always wanted an endangered species kabob grilled over moon rocks.
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I hear that Lyin’ Williams and Hitlery cooked such a meal just yesterday.
Sir Edmund Hillary Armstrong Brian Williams Clinton, USMC.
I am betting that he does come back and tries to claim to have just been suffering from exhaustion and/or flu.
I believe that it was most likely thought that this equipment had been left in the pod.
I remember it well, also. I also watched it on the TV in a bar, but I was waiting tables while I was in college.
Bet you are right.
He has lived in a fantasy world for so long he’s incapable of confronting hard truth and reality.
I am thinking his last wild shot, and maybe NBC’s too, will be to claim PTSD...he has just worked so hard and under such terrific pressure (he is after all the guiding light of America) that he has understandably slipped just this once.
Of course now we are on a half-dozen or so documentable lies...they can’t bring him back except perhaps as a sort of therapeutic example of high-level burnout.
You must’ve taken over my job after I graduated.
I think that we should make her dream come true and send her to space.
And Betty Skelton
My guess is if Hillary tried she wouldn't cut it. NASA doesn't take whiners.
Good question however many appear to be from the lunar lander which, if I'm not mistaken, was separated from the Command Module before the return to earth. So no one expects these items since they're supposedly in lunar orbit -or crashed on the moon. The lander was being ‘thrown away’ and he grabbed some momentos.
I understand that but the camera was an item of very significant importance from a practical as well as an historical perspective. It would be nice to think that the people in charge would have asked about it instead of supposing or assuming. Maybe the problem is that everyone thought someone else had looked into it, so nobody looked into it. In the gubermint that’s often the case.
At the time it was not against NASA policy to carry along personal mementos. There was some wording about those being "sanctioned" by NASA, but the definition was pretty loose. The guys on Apollo 15 got into trouble with those postage stamps. Some were "sanctioned", others were not. The unsanctioned ones were planned to be kept by the crew and later sold to establish a trust fund for their kids' education. When NASA officials found out, they confiscated them all. Gus Grissom carried some Mercury dimes in Liberty Bell 7, which were recovered when the sunken craft was raised a few years ago. Buzz Aldrin took along a "communion kit" to the lunar surface, which caused a bit of a stir in some circles.
There are people now trying to raise the F-1 engines from some of the Saturn Vs that landed in the ocean during the launch of some of the missions. NASA put the word out that those are still considered "government property". The general guideline seems to be if it was manufactured for NASA and paid for by the public, it is still public (government) property. Personal items are still yours.
I don't know about the comments in the article's comment section that say something about Obama signing a law saying this or that about these items. Anything about Obama I would view with some skepticism.
He’ll come back. That’s for sure. And when he does he will have concocted some elaborate psychological explanation that will excuse his “misremembering” and earn him enough sympathy to keep his job. Honesty doesn’t matter in big media. Only your liberal bona fides does.
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