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47 years ago today, Apollo 11 landed on the moon.
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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Sorry for being a couple hours late on this one. I was going to post it this morning, but got involved with the caption thread and then had to go to work. It's been 47 years now... I was a young lad of 12 years at the time. Worth noting again, I think. It really was an amazing accomplishment for that day and age. Meow. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22200 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
...and it feels like only yesterday! Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65746 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
My Mom's handiwork is under the top step of the descent stage of the Eagle(LEM), a copper plaque, with the names of 4 Astronauts, 1 of whom never varied. My Mom worked for Chem-Aero, I was 9 years old then, yes I saw it, on our color TV that Dad bought, I even had the issue of National Geographic that had an Article about the Apollo 11 mission. I had the reference plaque that Mom worked from, I'd taken the grey plastic plate to school for show and tell, I'd shown it to the class, then I asked if the teacher could lock it in Her desk drawer, She refused, saying it wasn't necessary, that no one would steal it, I being a trusting kid put it with My books, when I came back from recess, the plaque was gone, stolen, one of My classmates stole it, but none admitted to the theft, possibly jealous, a small search was made, but it was not found, the kid who did the deed probably tossed the plaque in a trash can, it's probably in a landfill somewhere. Needless to say I never saw any other plaque, I'm lucky Mom didn't lose Her job over this, the teacher sure didn't. I'd planned on taking the plaque home at lunch time, since I could eat lunch at home, My house was only a block away, and I had a key to the house. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
I was working at Mondadori Edizioni Scientifiche in Milano. My boss called me and said the "Epoca" magazine needed some able to translate the dialogue between Apollo 11 astronauts and Houston. I said I could try and I was given three secretaries that alternated typing what I was dictating. I translated 70 pages of astronautical jargon in 24 hours and it was published as an inset in "Epoca" magazine. I still have a copy. The then Mondadori President, Giorgio Mondadori, son of founder Arnoldo Mondadori, thanked me with a letter and a 270000 lira check,with which I paid one third of a Fiat 128 car, my first car. Happy days! Tullio |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
I was 2-1/2. I don't remember any of it. I do remember wanting to watch a splashdown and everyone telling me there wasn't one that day, but I don't know if I thought it was 11 or 12 or 13 or something in between. The only Apollo mission I have any memory of is Apollo-Soyuz, and that's not much. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
I remember that I was 'tanning' on Wasaga Beach on lake Huron listing to the landing with a tiny transistor radio. My girls and I were sitting in a circle intently waiting for touch down. With "Houston, the Eagle has landed" we all threw up our arms in a great cheer. I had been a newly minted corporal at the time, I was 21 years old! |
Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 29832 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 |
I stayed up all night and took photos of it all from the TV. I still have some 35mm slides of it around. I was 13 and could not get enough science. |
J. Mileski Send message Joined: 9 Jun 02 Posts: 632 Credit: 172,116,532 RAC: 572 |
Several years ago I got to personally witness the 40th anniversary of the "Saturn Moon Landing" celebrated as a model rocket launch. Saturn 1/10th scale model rocket |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
Unfortunately I was only 1, and don't remember it. I wish I had been born at least ten years earlier so I could have appreciated it all. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11361 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Steve Eves, the builder saw the light and became part of it. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Time flies. I was in Travemunde, Germany, that day, waiting for a ferry back home and couldn't see the TV broadcast. The original movies are said to be sharp and clear to almost unreal. If you could only find them. Even more than 40 years after the historic landing Nasa lacks 700 boxes of tapes in which the entire broadcast is preserved. |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
I was 17 years old. We were camping some where in Canada. The owner of the camp grounds invited everyone to his house to watch it on his TV. The place was packed. That's a memory I wont soon forget. [/quote] Old James |
John Neale Send message Joined: 16 Mar 00 Posts: 634 Credit: 7,246,513 RAC: 9 |
I was six years old. The moon landing of 1969 is one of my earliest memories. In South Africa, one of the consequences of the Nationalist apartheid government that ruled the country at the time was that we had no television - it would only arrive seven years later. I recall listening to a live broadcast of the moon landing, and the subsequent moon walk, on a transistor radio in the kitchen of my house in Cape Town. The radio was perched atop a large Amana fridge-freezer combination. Amana is a well-known American brand, so I guess that was appropriate! |
Uli Send message Joined: 6 Feb 00 Posts: 10923 Credit: 5,996,015 RAC: 1 |
I was ten at the time and held up a family vacation trip. Pluto will always be a planet to me. Seti Ambassador Not to late to order an Anni Shirt |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
I was ten at the time and held up a family vacation trip. You held up the vacation trip? Do tell more Uli. [/quote] Old James |
Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
I was 20 years old and in my third year of college. I lived then as now only 50 miles from the launch site and I was at Cocoa Beach for the launch. I figured movies like 2001 A Space Odyssey were overly optimistic about our progress in space but our lack of progress has been one of the big disappointments of my life. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
I figured movies like 2001 A Space Odyssey were overly optimistic about our progress in space but our lack of progress has been one of the big disappointments of my life. Maybe the truth is more like the fiction than we realize: combine the beginning of the book 2001 (IIRC, there's stuff in it the movie left out, even though the book and movie were written together) with the TNG episode where Riker is injured while disguised as an alien on a planet that's about to achieve warp flight. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
I figured movies like 2001 A Space Odyssey were overly optimistic about our progress in space but our lack of progress has been one of the big disappointments of my life. Ahh, another conspiracy theory. That aliens have contacted certain government officials who have persuaded them that the world's population isn't ready to know we have company. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 29832 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 |
I figured movies like 2001 A Space Odyssey were overly optimistic about our progress in space but our lack of progress has been one of the big disappointments of my life. We are watching. |
David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
I figured movies like 2001 A Space Odyssey were overly optimistic about our progress in space but our lack of progress has been one of the big disappointments of my life. I don't think we are. The world would go nuts to make the current terror situation look like a Sunday in the park. I don't necessarily believe there has been actual contact as depicted in TNG, but I would not call the possibility of *something* having been found zero. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
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