50 years ago today Neil Armstrong took one small step

Oh look a sound stage in the backlot of NASA.




J/k.

Good stuff!
BTW ... Neil A. spelled backwards is Alien.

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. . . with a slide rule

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Indeed.
Certainly special stuff for me. My father plotted Earth orbital trajectories of the Saturn 1B and S-IC at Michoud. All done on a slide rule.

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Even more impressive is the Lunar lander landing with its 10,000 lb thrust rocket leaving absolutely no blast crater .

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1) The descent engine was a throttleable engine and the astronauts didn't have it on full throttle when they were coming in for a landing. It was only at about 3,000 lbs at the moment of touchdown.

2) The moon only has about 1/6th the gravity of earth, so 3,000 lbs of thrust actually feels like less when you're on the moon.

3) The moon has no atmosphere, so the thrust from the engine could actually dissipate and spread out away from the engine more than it could on earth. So even though the astronauts are landing on the moon with 3,000 lbs of thrust, the force of that thrust is dispersed well enough that it kicked up a lot of lunar dust but didn't leave a massive crater.

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ne small step
I always loved the shot of the American flag waving in the air on the moon - with no atmosphere . Pure magic .

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Looks like it’s just crinkled up a bit on that curtain rod thingy it’s hanging from to me.

...and of course the American flag is nowhere to be seen n the Google Doodle.

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ong took one small step
so great not using google - frick them


and Armstrong messed up his line, was supposed to say "for A man"

The A is important because man = mankind if you don't have the A.

and how long before that gets neutered?

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It flows better the way he actually said it. Even if it’s sort of technically nonsensical, all of mankind got the gist.

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DreauxB2015

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Kids, this is what happens when you huff gas in your teens.

I was talking to my old man the other night about this. He was 19 at the time. He just said that he remembers following the coverage all day, and watching the moonwalk with his parents and younger brother that evening, and just that the whole thing was amazing.

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A.D

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A.C.E. revels the full lunacy of political correctness. Pope Gregory created our current calendar based on the time before and after the birth of Jesus Christ, so WTF is the "common era?"