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Re: Moon landing - 50th Anniversary
« Reply #20 on: July 22, 2019, 04:19:53 AM »

We choose to go to the Moon...


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"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."

                   John F. Kennedy, Rice University, Sept. 12, 1962
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« Reply #21 on: July 23, 2019, 12:10:20 AM »

President Kennedy knew how to deliver a speech like no other.

Fifty years ago today, Apollo 11 left lunar orbit and began its way back to Earth.
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« Reply #22 on: July 23, 2019, 12:41:23 AM »

With the Beatles, the space race was one of my earliest memories. To me that makes it the best of all possible childhoods.

I was in kindergarten when Apollo 11 reached the moon and still remember the tv and newspaper reports. I was fortunate that I’d started school as that ends to anchor your memories. Like almost every other child of the time I had a scrapbook with all the paper clippings and did projects on it at school.

That was when Disneyland still had Tomorrowland, a time to look forward to. I wish there was a bit more of that optimism around. Must be a lot less fun being a child nowadays.



I was too young but played with my brothers' Apollo GI Joe's with capsule and all suits and various props.  Did grow up dreaming about space.  Disappointed that the space program has been stagnant for so long, good to see discussion about resurrecting it in some way.


I'm old enough to remember Sputnik 1 and  Explorer 1.  I remember when NASA was established and when the seven original astronauts were chosen for the Mercury Program...







I wrote to NASA and asked to be on the mailing list for the official releases of their space missions.  I received mailings all through the 1960s which included transcripts of all communications between the Space Centers and the astronauts.  And so I dreamed of space too.  Very vivid dreams!  Knowing that I had other career objectives, I at least had the opportunity to do as the original astronauts did; earn my pilot's license and instrument rating.  In that humble way, I was able to "slip the surly bonds of Earth."



High Flight

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there
I’ve chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,
Where never lark, or even eagle, flew;
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.


   John Gillespie Magee Jr.



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Re: Moon landing - 50th Anniversary
« Reply #23 on: July 23, 2019, 11:43:00 PM »

Well. I never even got that close HG (beyond flying a lot as a passenger) Actually I’m scared of heights so the desire to be an astronaut might be counterintuitive  ;D Although flying itself has never worried me. Different being tucked in securely inside as opposed to, say, standing on a cliff face.

It’s been a fun week following all the 50th anniversary stuff. There’s a twitter account that’s been sending the transcript of communications between Houston and Apollo in real time for instance.  I hadn’t seen much with the surviving astronauts though. A bit from Buzz Aldrin but nothing from Michael Collins although I might have just missed it. He was always a bit of the forgotten man of the flight since he didn’t get to walk on the moon.
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« Reply #24 on: July 24, 2019, 12:46:18 AM »

It’s been a fun week following all the 50th anniversary stuff. There’s a twitter account that’s been sending the transcript of communications between Houston and Apollo in real time for instance.  I hadn’t seen much with the surviving astronauts though. A bit from Buzz Aldrin but nothing from Michael Collins although I might have just missed it. He was always a bit of the forgotten man of the flight since he didn’t get to walk on the moon.


This was the Google Doodle last Thursday:

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« Reply #25 on: July 24, 2019, 01:31:39 AM »

This was the Google Doodle last Thursday:

https://youtu.be/t6VpHyKXHBM


I hadn’t seen that. That’s great. And I’m glad Mike got to narrate it.
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« Reply #26 on: July 24, 2019, 02:26:30 AM »

The Apollo 11 Google Doodle was the best ever!!

Fifty years ago today, Apollo 11 was nearing the Earth...


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« Reply #27 on: July 24, 2019, 03:00:25 AM »

The Apollo 11 Google Doodle was the best ever!!

Fifty years ago today, Apollo 11 was nearing the Earth...



The big blue marble. I know that was a later mission but I can't see a picture of the Earth without thinking of that or this...

https://youtu.be/IlIx0pdjp-Q
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Re: Moon landing - 50th Anniversary
« Reply #29 on: July 25, 2019, 07:24:49 AM »

That picture of them all in the quarantine tank is one I clearly remember from the newspaper. I remember asking my mother why they had to be in there.
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« Reply #30 on: July 26, 2019, 03:12:29 AM »




The Apollo 11 astronauts had to go through customs after they returned to earth.   ;D
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Re: Moon landing - 50th Anniversary
« Reply #31 on: July 26, 2019, 05:15:23 AM »

Relief to see there were no passengers  ;)
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