[SunkenCiv]

• Famed Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell dies at 97-years-old [08/08/2025]
• James Lovell, astronaut and Apollo 13 commander, dies (Houston we have a problem) [08/08/2025]
• On This Day: Ill-fated Apollo 13 blasts off [04/11/2025]
• Apollo 8 Genesis Reading (December 24, 1968) [12/24/2022]
• December 24, 1968: Apollo 8 Genesis Reading and Earthrise [12/24/2021]
• A SpaceX Dragon will make the 1st nighttime splashdown with astronauts in 53 years and you can watch it live [05/01/2021]
• Apollo 8's Christmas Eve Message [12/24/2020]
• (LISTEN) On This Day: Apollo 8 Broadcasts Biblical Christmas Message Heard By 1 Billion People [12/24/2020]
• Apollo 8 [12/24/2020]
• A Unique American Moment, Fifty Years Ago Today: The Rescue of Apollo 13 [04/14/2020]
• 50 Years ago Today Apollo 13 launched at 2:13 pm EST [04/11/2020]
• On This Day in Space! April 17, 1970: Apollo 13 Returns from Aborted Moon Mission [04/17/2019]
• Earthrise: The stunning photo that changed how we see our planet [12/24/2018]
• Apollo 8 crew reads from the Book of Genesis (fifty years ago tonight Christmas Eve 1968) [12/24/2018]
• Apollo 8: First Around the Moon [50th Anniversary of Launch TODAY!] [12/21/2018]
• April 11 in Military History: Buchenwald liberated and Apollo 13 blasts off [04/11/2018]
• Apollo 8: Christmas at the Moon [Launched 49 Years Ago this day] [12/20/2017]
• The unrecognized decision that saved Apollo 13 [04/15/2016]
• Apollo 14 Mission To Fra Mauro (1971) [02/06/2016]
• Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, 6th Man on Moon, Dies in Florida [02/05/2016]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Earthrise [09/06/2015]
• 'The Astronaut Wives Club' began with triteness and ended in ugliness [08/21/2015]
• Tesla is apparently recharging 'emissions free' electric cars with a diesel generator [05/28/2015]
• What Would William F. Buckley Do? [10/05/2011]
• Apollo heroes call on Americans to save US spaceflight programme [04/11/2010]
• One of the newest craters on the Moon [03/30/2010]
• 'Legends of Aerospace' visit Airmen in Southwest Asia [03/10/2010]
• FR Exc! Heroes Neil Armstrong, Gene Cernan, Jim Lovell, Steve Ritchie Forbidden To See Troops In SWA [03/08/2010]
• "My astronauts are better than yours..." [10/29/2008]
• Vanity - Apollo 13 on History Channel - what's wrong with this country? [08/28/2005]
• 'We'll remember him with a smile on his face' [02/03/2003]
• Two Astronauts Bumped from Flight [STS-113] [11/09/2002]

[silent majority rising]

Thank you. One of the pinnacles of human experiences.

[ansel12]

“”””hero sounds corny at times but I don’t think you have Heroes anymore and maybe uh some but the youngsters need Heroes nowadays”””””

I love Johnny, but this opening could have been worded differently.
If anyone has forgotten how the Vietnam War was treated in the media, this was the year 1970, over 6,000 of our men were killed that year, almost 12,000 the year before, and thousands more to come, and many thousands before, and that doesn’t count the maimed and mangled, disfigured and amputees.

In 1970 men were earning Medals of Honor and Silver Stars, and everything else, heroes by the thousands, but......Vietnam.

[DouglasKC]

I sure miss Carson. Used to watch him as a young man and on and on.