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To: Jemian

I remember vividly watching most of if not every launch, the failures, the landings and the end of the space race.

And when I went to the Cape and walked under a Saturn 5 and then saw all the equipment they had mostly built by slide rulers its just totally and almost unbelievable.


71 posted on 07/21/2011 2:38:44 AM PDT by Eye of Unk (Daniel J. Ramsey 1956-2012)
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To: Eye of Unk

Entering the atmosphere!

I remember the tense minutes after splashdowns and before the capsules were spotted bobbing in the ocean. There was a good idea where the astronauts were but even so, it is hard to spot things floating in the water.


72 posted on 07/21/2011 2:43:03 AM PDT by Jemian
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To: Eye of Unk

Atlantis now at ‘atmosphere interface’, where they are just starting to enter Earth’s atmosphere again.


73 posted on 07/21/2011 2:43:25 AM PDT by hoagy62 (Help stamp out crack-pull up your pants.)
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