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re: Launch of Apollo 11 - 50th Anniversary!
Posted on 7/16/19 at 1:01 pm to JPinLondon
Posted on 7/16/19 at 1:01 pm to JPinLondon
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Posted on 7/16/19 at 1:12 pm to JPinLondon
designed with slide rules and hand drawn raster
manual hand machined parts
haven't been back to the moon in over 40 years now
manual hand machined parts
haven't been back to the moon in over 40 years now
Posted on 7/16/19 at 1:19 pm to TheFonz
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Back in the day, they would test all five engines at the same time as a cluster out at Stennis. My old man said you could hear them all the way in Abita Springs, 40 miles away, and it would rattle the windows.
I bet
I know the three cluster shuttle engines would rattle our Slidell windows.
Posted on 7/16/19 at 1:24 pm to TheFonz
That first stage 
Posted on 7/16/19 at 1:49 pm to JPinLondon
There is a special about Apollo 11 on tonight CBS at 9PM.
Posted on 7/16/19 at 1:59 pm to Athis
quote:Thanks! I'm gonna watch.
There is a special about Apollo 11 on tonight CBS at 9PM.
Cronkite almost talked over three key moments during the landing/walk. He only sometimes knew when to shut up.
Posted on 7/16/19 at 2:01 pm to Alldaylong
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It never happened
Even the dumbest and most deranged Moon Landing hoaxers don't deny the LAUNCH happened!!
Posted on 7/16/19 at 2:11 pm to JPinLondon
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most deranged Moon Landing hoaxers don't deny the LAUNCH happened!!
Agreed!
Posted on 7/16/19 at 2:13 pm to Mike da Tigah
quote:I looked up trying to see Armstrong and Aldrin walking around on the moon.
I’ll never forget the amazement of looking up at the moon
Posted on 7/16/19 at 6:38 pm to JPinLondon
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This country could learn a lot from JFK and that quote. A modern democrat would find that quote reprehensible.
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
We never uad to build a wall to keep people in.
JFK was based.
Posted on 7/16/19 at 6:46 pm to JPinLondon
True story. I know the lady who was WvB's secretary. As far as I know, she is still living. She always said that he took care of the people who worked for him and never had a bad word to say about him.
Posted on 7/16/19 at 6:56 pm to JPinLondon
My birthday is July 20th. I was 7 in 1969. We had a pool party and sleepover so I watched it with a couple of friends who spent the night. We had our own little TV in the den; mom, dad, and mom's parents watched in the living room.
Great time to be alive.
Great time to be alive.
Posted on 7/16/19 at 9:01 pm to Athis
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There is a special about Apollo 11 on tonight CBS at 9PM.
tune in NOW, folks!!!
Posted on 7/16/19 at 9:20 pm to JPinLondon
So what does the history channel have on tonight.. the pickers,now that is real history. WTF is wrong that channel
Posted on 7/16/19 at 9:29 pm to JPinLondon
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Today is a momentous day in history!
I find it fricking embarrassing. Really, we haven’t been back since 1972? To be honest, I’m quite pissed off. I’ve drank myself into a stupor on the humiliation of this day. No way someone in 1969 would believe that we don’t have a moon base at this point, nevertheless not returning to the moon from 3 years into their future.
This is a fricking embarrassment. We should have planned for a 50th anniversary trip in the very least, but every President since Nixon has said we’re 10-15 years off from being at Mars? frick off, you fricking liars. We have to go back to the fricking Moon.
You what the best thing since the Moon Landing would be? China landing on the Moon. I’d love to see that Chinese flag there. Love it. If that happens, you can bet your arse that within the year some American will be walking on the Moon, and then within the decade an American will be walking in Mars. China going to the Moon would be the best thing for the US Space Program since Sputnik. China, please land on the Moon, since NASA has been basically stagnant since 1972.
Posted on 7/16/19 at 9:31 pm to HECM62
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My birthday is July 20th. I was 7 in 1969. We had a pool party and sleepover so I watched it with a couple of friends who spent the night. We had our own little TV in the den; mom, dad, and mom's parents watched in the living room.
Great time to be alive.
Nice birthday!! Happy 57th!
What a great memory, that sounds like an incredible evening and night, that you have fondly recalled nearly your whole life.
Posted on 7/16/19 at 11:27 pm to kew48
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Worked at the MTF( Mississippi Test Facility) and witnessed tests of the first and second stage os the Saturn 5. Amazing power- Sitting in the review stands which were a few miles away , your pants leg would flutter as the first stage would fire off and during the few minutes of the test- something I will never forget.
I can only imagine- we toured Johnson Space Center this spring and got to get up close with the last Saturn V that was slated to launch the last Apollo mission (23?). The sheer size of that rocket, and the amount of fuel that each stage holds is almost unimaginable. Meanwhile, 50 years later, SpaceX is launching rockets and recovering every piece, and not only that, but they are all guided landings- technology is an amazing thing!
Posted on 7/18/19 at 12:30 am to LSUGUMBO
There is a Saturn 5 laying on its side and an F1 engine that you can walk right up to touch and see at the INFINITY Science Center right by the Stennis Center off I 10.
Posted on 7/18/19 at 12:31 am to JPinLondon
Yoga girl convinced me this was all made up.
Posted on 7/18/19 at 2:35 am to JPinLondon
I've been consuming the shows like crazy this week and am amazed at how they got it done. Pretty low technology and even the LEM was so fragile. The visiting my dad and it was fun to hear him tell me how my grandma let him stay home from school just until after the launch. Instead he sat in front of the TV all morning. He was 17 so of course I've heard all kinds of crazy stories over the years about them getting away with so many things but for some reason this hit a bit different.
I hope there's not a similarly surprising story I tell my grandkids in 15-20 years. The closest is maybe telling the TA I was staying home on 9-11. Instead I got a condescending email back from the arab/muslim about how he doubted they would conve after our school. In hindsight perhaps that should have been turned over to the paranoid new DHS for his prompt one way ticket to be with his baws at Gitmo.
I still think the greatest generation's kids saw so much change/big events/lax supervision. And we got Challenger, 9-11, and boy bands.
I hope there's not a similarly surprising story I tell my grandkids in 15-20 years. The closest is maybe telling the TA I was staying home on 9-11. Instead I got a condescending email back from the arab/muslim about how he doubted they would conve after our school. In hindsight perhaps that should have been turned over to the paranoid new DHS for his prompt one way ticket to be with his baws at Gitmo.
I still think the greatest generation's kids saw so much change/big events/lax supervision. And we got Challenger, 9-11, and boy bands.
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