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re: Apollo 11: July 20, 1969 - Forty-Nine Years Ago, perhaps Mankind's Greatest Journey
Posted on 7/20/18 at 6:01 pm to farad
Posted on 7/20/18 at 6:01 pm to farad
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I was on my way to Woodstock...and missed it...
Did your car's AM radio not work? Or was the 8-track blasting Janis Joplin? Or were you on a Trailways bus?
It was such a big-event Summer, as I recall (I was born two years later)…
- Hurricane Camille
- Chappaquiddick
- Charles Manson murders
- Cuyahoga River catches fire
- Mariner 6/7 flybys of Mars
- Woodstock
- Bryan Addams got his first real six-string
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Posted on 7/20/18 at 6:47 pm to JPinLondon
Can't wait for the sequel - Mars
Posted on 7/20/18 at 8:08 pm to JPinLondon
My grandfather was part of the program. I now have his NASA/Boeing plaques and the medallion made from the chunk of aluminum which went to the moon and back.
The Boeing “Roll of Honor” book with the duties of all people involved...and lots and lots of technical stuff well over my head...
The Boeing “Roll of Honor” book with the duties of all people involved...and lots and lots of technical stuff well over my head...
This post was edited on 7/20/18 at 9:33 pm
Posted on 7/20/18 at 8:12 pm to Marco Esquandolas
Posted on 7/20/18 at 8:46 pm to JPinLondon
BUZZ ALDRIN USES FELT TIPPED PIN TO REPLACE BROKEN SWITCH
The breaker to light up the ascent engine broke so Aldrin had to use a pen to flip the switch. For a while they were up there not knowing whether or not they were going to be able to take off.
The breaker to light up the ascent engine broke so Aldrin had to use a pen to flip the switch. For a while they were up there not knowing whether or not they were going to be able to take off.
Posted on 7/20/18 at 9:23 pm to Marco Esquandolas
That book is tits af. Wish I had one for douglas. I posted my grandpa's equivalent on page 1. Letters even have the same date of issue
Someone who never, ever gets enough credit for their work was my aunt's dad. He is the lead designer of the crawler-transporter. Got the cushiest job of overseeing the maintenance/upgrades for like 20 years afterwards... since rockets don't move themselves from the safe confines of the vehicle assembly building to the launch pad to you mr buck. Most powerful, self powered machine for 3 decades or so.
I believe he's 3rd from the left here.
Someone who never, ever gets enough credit for their work was my aunt's dad. He is the lead designer of the crawler-transporter. Got the cushiest job of overseeing the maintenance/upgrades for like 20 years afterwards... since rockets don't move themselves from the safe confines of the vehicle assembly building to the launch pad
to you mr buck. Most powerful, self powered machine for 3 decades or so. I believe he's 3rd from the left here.
Posted on 7/20/18 at 9:39 pm to MoarKilometers
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MoarKilometers
This book is pretty extensive—-I’ll look through it this evening for pics and references of the trac mover and post them if I find.
Posted on 7/20/18 at 9:41 pm to MoarKilometers
The crawler is an absolute beast. 
Posted on 7/20/18 at 9:48 pm to DavidTheGnome
My Dad was in Huntsville and was one of the Engineers that worked on the Saturn Booster. I remember we got to go down to Cape Canaveral for a Gemini Launch.
Posted on 7/20/18 at 10:02 pm to Marco Esquandolas
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This book is pretty extensive—-I’ll look through it this evening for pics and references of the trac mover and post them if I find.
I'd be way more interested in the saturn iv-b... the third stage. Grandpa was chief engineer of that after apollo 12 or 13 maybe, deputy chief prior to. Crawler-transporter was my cousins' other grandpa, so he's just loosely affiliated to me personally. The crawler just turned 50 a few weeks back, so nasa actually released a couple cool fb posts on it.
Full line up of apollo mission patches from grandpa's stash...
Posted on 7/20/18 at 10:24 pm to Sentrius
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mankind's most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding
haha, we haven't searched for truth and understanding in nearly 40 years.
Posted on 7/21/18 at 1:08 pm to MoarKilometers
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Someone who never, ever gets enough credit for their work was my aunt's dad. He is the lead designer of the crawler-transporter.
Well, here's to MoarKilometers' aunt's dad!!!
The Crawler-Transporter is absolutely badass, and another example of American Exceptionalism and our (hopefully not extinguished) can-do spirit!
I'm sure your aunt's dad was in a meeting in 1963 or 1964, and at some point, the skeptics uttered...
"how can we build a vehicle that could lift TWELVE MILLION POUNDS? Impossible!" and "hell, the damn thing would have to weigh at least SIX MILLION POUNDS! Which would mean the road-bed would have to support EIGHTEEN MILLION POUNDS!!!!!"
>>> "Impossible... it can't be done."
But they designed and built the damned thing, and the road it travels on. Truly a remarkable piece of engineering, design and implementation. One of many staggering accomplishments to achieve the age-old goal of walking on the Moon.
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