Posted on 07/20/2009 5:52:01 AM PDT by Ed Hudgins
As a child I was fascinated by astronomy and space, and I hoped to live to see the day when men would travel to the Moon. In 1969 I managed to snag a summer high school internship at Goddard Space Flight Center in Beltsville, Maryland. Thus I was able to be an extremely small part of one of the greatest human achievements when, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first human beings to land and walk on the lunar surface. I was like a kid in a solar-system-sized candy store! I was able to watch the launch and splashdown from the control room; they let a kid like me just walk right in and sit in the visitors’ gallery! I was able to follow every step of the Apollo 11 mission; I still have my thick copy of the flight plan, labeled AS-506-/CSM-107/LM-5, and a hundred high-resolution lunar mapping photos. Forty years later I reflect on the two meanings, one political, the other philosophical, of what happened on that “Where were you?” date.
From the Moon to the Mud
The Moon landing was spearheaded by NASA, a government agency created for political purposes and national prestige as well as for scientific discoveries. There were several reasons for its success in reaching the Moon ahead of the Soviets. NASA had a very focused mission and definite deadline. It had as much taxpayer money as it needed. And it had personnel from the private sector as well as the military who were committed to the mission and willing to heroically give their all to achieve it. These people deserve our praise and admiration.
But in the decades since the landing NASA has become bloated, bureaucratic, and mired in the mud ...
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In his op-ed in the Washington Post on Thurs., 7/16, Buzz Aldrin says that the U.S. should go back to the Moonn as part of an international consortium but should go to Mars by ourselves and set up colonies.
Buzz is wrong about going to the moon as part of any consortium. That’s what gave us the ISS and it’s 5 year mission to do nothing. I’m betting private industry can get back to the moon before NASA or any “consortium” could.
Did anyone see Geraldo’s piece last night in which he presented the theory that the moon landing was staged by the government? (What has he been smoking?)
Actually Geraldo WE went six times. And Russians tracked us all the way there and back.
Believe he said something like the moon landing itself, the video, was recorded over accidentally, and he was positively hysterical about this new conspiracy theory. I had to move on after the first five minutes.
Yes, and considering the considerable effort that the USSR was expending on its own moon landing program by the time of Apollo 11, I see no reason why the Soviets would have been complicit in a cover-up of an American hoax - or why the Russians would continue to offer us cover.
Nah, it’s only a trick of light and shadow. You know that!
That thing and several other objects in the same region pass fractal index tests for being artificial.
1. We never went. It was all faked.
2. When we got there we found out it was already populated with aliens who told us to leave and never come back.
That's why the tapes were "erased".
America after four years of Obama!
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