Hard to believe. I was alive at that time. Not by much, I was only 3 years old. I have memories of watching Moon Landings. I'm not sure if my earliest
memories include Apollo 11 among them. But I KNOW I watched live a couple of the later broadcasts (Apollo 16-17 maybe?). I remember watching live at least once
as the camera showed the Lunar Module lifting off from the surface of the moon.
There is a website I just discovered. Here it is -
http://wechoosethemoon.org/
Go there. What they are doing, among other things, is running a realtime stream of the events of the mission as they happened. (Just 40 years later.)
If that's the case, I'll miss the launch.
I'll still be at work at that time.
_____
DEATH is Certain. The hour, Uncertain...
Wow, impressive site.
In other news, I hear that at least some of the rediscovered video footage of the moon landing will be made public today.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
I can hardly wait to see that!
I wish the world - I'm not Americentric enough to say 'America' in this - had a space presence. ISS is a joke. Where's the moon colony?
Where's the space elevator? Where's the Mission to Mars?
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
Quote: Wiredgeek wrote:
I wish the world - I'm not Americentric enough to say 'America' in this - had a space presence. ISS is a joke. Where's the moon colony?
Where's the space elevator? Where's the Mission to Mars?
Prove to the governments of the world that it is profitable to spend money on space travel, or get NASA and the other space agencies to allow private industry
to explore and exploit extraterrestrial territories for profit and you might actually see these things. It's going to require profit for anyone to stick
their neck out. Space is, after all, a dangerous and expensive place.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
Where's our motivation? We don't have the technology to make any productive space industries. What we have is enough presence to do experiments and
observe with.
It would be nice, but it's just not going to happen until we have a very good reason.
If I say anything more on this, this thread will get dragged over to Politics, so I'll shut up now.
My
Unitarian Jihad Name is:
Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate.
Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.
Quote: Wiredgeek wrote:
Quote: Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence.
It is, however, the only way to save the human race.
Oh, I agree wholeheartedly, but most people don't give a shit about the human race as long as they have their televison, Internet, and corresponding porn.
And those in a poverty state care even less, givent that they're mostly concerned with their own survival. We're not a global enough culture to give a
damn about our species survival yet.
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
I was 4 myself, Logan, so I can empathize with you. I feel.... Old.
On the other side of the coin though, at least this means that there isnt a penal colony up there getting ready to drop rocks on our heads to get us to give
them their independance....
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by
Echo's Children
Quote: I was 4 myself, Logan, so I can empathize with you. I feel.... Old.
Join the party. (I was five...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
I was eleven. (Uphill, both ways, in waist-deep snow, you puppies.) It particularly depresses me now that I have no clear memories of the event.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
You forgot "IN JUNE" there DH
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by
Echo's Children
I posted a copy of my OP to a Star Blazers mailing list that I'm a part of. And here is one of the responses I got back --
Quote: From: Jim Cooper
Well it does give my age away (and spelling does not count) but I had just finished my second tour of duty in Viet Nam, as a Navy Pilot,
and met up with my wife and 3-year-old daughter in Naha, Okinawa.
We departed Kadena Air Force Base on a MAC flight on July 16th 1969 and because of the International
Date Line we landed at Travis Air Force Base, in California, also on the 16th of July. After checking into the transit BOQ we were able to watch
the landing on the moon and Armstrong's first step.
The next day we flew from San Francisco (SFO) to Allentown, Pa (ABE) on our way to our parents home in Phillipsburg, NJ.
I would spend the next 30 days on post deployment leave before I flew back to SFO to be officially discharged, after completing my 5
year tour of duty in the US Navy, at Treasure Island Naval Station, on September 5, 1969.
After flying back to New Jersey on the 5th of September 1969 I repacked my bags and flew down to Atlanta, Ga to join my
flight training class with Delta Air Lines on the 12th of September 1969.
On the 13th of August 1977 I was the Captain of a flight from Chicago (ORD) to Cincinnati (CVG) and I
collected the only autograph of all the passengers I ever flew ….. Neil Armstrong
I think Jim wins.
(O_____O)
Okay... That... is outstanding.
Concur.... Outstanding, and he definatly wins the "I'm older than all o you"
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by
Echo's Children