[SES1066]

I am feeling very old with this 50th Anniversary! Anyone who was alive and aware then was watching the first humans to enter and orbit in Luna's gravity field. We had such high hopes and great fears but this, the NASA progression to the Moon, was / IS one of the United States of America's proudest achievements!

I commend to any and everyone to take a moment and watch the Christmas Eve "Genesis" broadcast from the crew of Apollo 8.

[NohSpinZone]

And to think that when I was a kid in the ‘80s I only knew Frank Borman as a crappy CEO of a crappy company, Eastern Airlines. I had no idea that he was the American hero that he was.

Jim Lovell, you ain’t so bad yourself.

[Da_Shrimp]

I was 6 years old and remember it being on TV. Such an amazing achievement: but there are some tossers out there who think it never happened. Buffoons and idiots.

[Jolla]

1st grade in 1963 when Kennedy was killed; the ‘60s really were amazing and following the space program was a big part of it. I wear a NASA t-shirt regularly when I am walking - it always gets comments and smiles from the boomers; we were so lucky, we had real heroes, no computers, no I phones and no internet. They were glorious times.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[beergarden]

I want to hear what that leftard Steph Curry has to say. Betcha’ he’ll say it was filmed at a sound studio or something similarly stupid..

[wny]

back in the day...when the US actually accomplished things....

[minnesota_bound]

When the astronauts went to the dark side they discovered the moon was just a background like in a hollywood studio. It is all hush hush...

[Fiddlstix]

[Justa]

Now just listen to the good-ole boys who ran this flight

https://youtu.be/XKtH0uzg8wU?t=11

Think about that.

[JoeFromSidney]

I share your feelings. It was a shock to realize that was fifty years ago. I remember it like it was yesterday.

[polymuser]

I’m an American nationalist and I’m very proud of America.

If that triggers anyone, they can eat Moochie’s poo.

[elbook]

Once you hear about how risky the whole project was - the narrow margins on everything and complexity to potentially go wrong, you have to rate these men a great explorers AND ones who opened the way for further feats.

[MisterArtery]

I worked on that mission at the Manned Spacecraft Center just south of Houston. Wonderful memories from 50 years ago for this old booger.