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re: This date in 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first man to step onto the moon's surface...
Posted on 7/21/20 at 10:36 am to LegendInMyMind
Posted on 7/21/20 at 10:36 am to LegendInMyMind
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I've always heard that my grandad (mom's side) didn't believe we landed on the moon. No one could convince him. He was a smart man, could fix anything from cars to tractors to a cotton gin, but he always insisted that, "They can make a set for anything out in Hollywood."
An older guy I used to work with told me that many senior citizens of that time (especially 70 and older) didn't believe we walked on the moon.
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Posted on 7/21/20 at 10:40 am to LSURussian
This date in 1969 Alexei Leonov became the first man to step onto the moon's surface...
FIFY.
FIFY.
This post was edited on 7/21/20 at 10:41 am
Posted on 7/21/20 at 10:44 am to Bankshot
They laughed at Louis Armstrong when he said he was gonna go to the moon Now he's up there, laughing at them
Posted on 7/21/20 at 10:49 am to Bigfishchoupique
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I watched it live.
This.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:02 am to LSURussian
The Cold War had a bunch of stupid shite, but this was really good.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:04 am to LSURussian
The real conspiracy for me is....
Why we no go back?!
Why we no go back?!
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:12 am to Catchfalaya
Catch I know four people down voted you but I absolutely believe that there are alien bases on the moon and those three Astronauts saw aliens and alien bases up there on the moon. You can see it on all three of their faces in that first press conference when they returned to earth.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:18 am to Wally Sparks
quote:The photo file I took that picture from said it was Neil Armstrong descending the ladder for the first time.
Who took this picture if he was “first”?
That is Buzz Aldrin coming down the ladder.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 11:57 am to LSURussian
Went to some friends of my parents to watch it, because they had a color TV.
Did the same thing for the first episode of Lost in Space!
Did the same thing for the first episode of Lost in Space!
Posted on 7/21/20 at 12:12 pm to Stealth Matrix
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The real conspiracy for me is....
Why we no go back?!
We went back 5 times.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 12:20 pm to LSURussian
It was the summer after I graduated high school and I watched it live.
1. He didn't say "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." He said ""That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
2. That is a photo of Buzz Aldrin descending the LEM ladder, not Neil Armstrong.
1. He didn't say "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." He said ""That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
2. That is a photo of Buzz Aldrin descending the LEM ladder, not Neil Armstrong.
Posted on 7/21/20 at 7:29 pm to Toroballistic
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We went back 5 times.
In the 70s. Why not lately?
Posted on 7/21/20 at 8:03 pm to LegendInMyMind
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I've always heard that my grandad (mom's side) didn't believe we landed on the moon. No one could convince him. He was a smart man, could fix anything from cars to tractors to a cotton gin, but he always insisted that, "They can make a set for anything out in Hollywood."
I never knew him, but I've heard family talk about him saying that.
Ironically, my mom's dad was chief engineer of that rocket stage that was repeatedly plowed into the lunar surface
I wish I knew how short our time together was gonna be. Would've loved to have some interviews with him explaining how/why they did things. Posted on 7/22/20 at 8:29 am to Stealth Matrix
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In the 70s. Why not lately?
I'm not sure but perhaps because it costs a lot and there isn't anything to study or discover that is worth the cost. Just a guess.
Posted on 7/22/20 at 8:41 am to LSURussian
White man in a white suit. 
Posted on 7/22/20 at 8:46 am to Toroballistic
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I'm not sure but perhaps because it costs a lot and there isn't anything to study or discover that is worth the cost. Just a guess.
It cost a shitload of money to send a Saturn V up there and the novelty had worn off by the early 70's. Plus, NASA wanted to shift funds to the space shuttle program.
We haven't been back because there hasn't been a pressing need or desire to go back. The US had already "won" that particular Cold War battle in 1969, and the Cold War ended in 1989. The national excitement around space travel had kind of worn off by the 90's (and I suspect a lot were turned off by watching a shuttle explode on TV in 86).
Still, getting there was one of the greatest accomplishments in American history. Still only two types of countries in the world (generally speaking, of course). Those who use the metric system and those who put a man on the moon
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