re: I haven’t felt this way since 1972

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We've kidnapped the president of Colombia and are holding him trial

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That's surprising news for him.

Last pic looks like AI

I was in a program between my jr/sr year of high school, and lived in a dorm on campus summer of ‘69. As a 16 y.o, I watched the first moon walk from the bowling alley in basement of LSU student union ( it had tvs with the live broadcast, and I could be in there without being 18,,,I didn’t have a fake id yet! ). I remember lots of folks crowded around the tvs, all of us entranced with what we were seeing in that grainy black and white video “one small step….”. One guy watching was a Cuban student, who fervently wanted to be an aeronautical engineer, but his father had sent him to LSU to be an electrical engineer , zero choice for him. His face was a mix of awe and wistfulness, he wanted so badly to be part of the space program. My guess is that he became an electrical engineer and returned to Cuba.

The guts it takes, then and now, to be an astronaut is boundless. A million things can go wrong, most of them leading to tragedy….so to climb into that spaceship, blastoff, and head for the moon, then hope all goes well and you actually return safely….wow. The Apollo 13 mission in 1970 is mind boggling, how they used plastic bags and duct tape to mcguyver a solution to a huge problem…

In my younger days I think I could have done it….We are all “bullerproof” as young adults, aren’t we? Now, I am not sure I would have the courage. What about you?

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so we built a base 200k miles away for a trip that could be 200,000,000 miles?

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Do you even gravity, bro?

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Watching the landing reminded of being a kid in Jonesboro

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I am neither of those things, sorry to disappoint

I wish NASA would sell those astronaut space socks they had on during the mission. I'd pay a good $30 for a pair of outer space-rated astronaut socks with a small NASA logo on them.

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So what’s your favorite moment from Artemis 2?

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Them coming home safely and thanking God...

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"I wanted to thank God in public, and I want to thank God again, because even bigger than my challenge trying to describe what we went through, the gratitude of seeing what we saw, doing what we did, and being with who I was with — it's too big to just be in one body."

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I didn't say anything until now because I didn't want to jinx the mission. So cool to see us moving forward again.

I've never understood why we stopped going to the moon. Money. Lack of correct technology. No longer important once we beat the Russians there.

I understand there are different environmental conditions for going to the moon and going to Mars but it always seemed to me that you need to make going to the moon easy then develop new technologies and learn all of the lessons to help going other places easier.

The space shuttle was cool but then things stagnated. Along with the failed missions, I think NASA lost the road map. Then for some reason NASA became a political agency instead of a Space Agency.

Long term we need to get off of this rock and we will never learn how by sitting at home.

Kudos to the brave men and women willing to try.

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