July 1969. It’s a little over eight years since the flights of Gagarin and Shepard, followed quickly by President Kennedy’s challenge to put a man on the moon before the decade is out.
One Giant Leap For Mankind
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Truly one of our finest hours. Only the best and brightest were part of the manned missions. Bless them all.
People who claim this was faked should fund an expedition to the moon and prove there is no lander, flags or dune buggy.
I’m pretty sure you can see the lander, flags and dune buggy from the observatory on the North West corner of the flat Earth…
Well, Anon, we just might do that but for NASA claiming that we have lost the technology…..
A highlight of my childhood, along with John Glenn, The Beatles, and JFK.
I was there – watching it on a 12″ Magnavox B&W TV set! I’ll never forget it!
Who keeps pushing this propaganda? The absolute proof we did NOT go is that we cannot even do it now. Look what a pitiful job Nasa did just to get 2 folks to LOW Earth orbit.
It was at this moment that the scum in charge who cared more about power than Mankind decided that if people could leave the Earth to build new lives for themselves out in space, then they would, and likely not pay taxes to the almighty state. That just wouldn’t do. So, it’s all gone downhill ever since.
My dad was on the Apollo/Saturn launch team on pad 34 from Apollo 1 through 10. It never ceases to amaze me how we were able to send men to the moon so early in our technolical history. For those deluded conspiracy nuts who don’t think we went there, I pity them and their lack of critical thinking skills. If the landings were indeed hoaxes, then there would have been more than a quarter million people in on it who would all have kept their mouths shut. Also, I’ve personally met astronauts, and I believe them more than I do some conspiracy kook.
It was filmed in Stanley Hubrick’s studio……
LOL.
Have you been to the U.S. Space Museum in Huntsville and seen the Saturn V hanging from the ceiling? Captain!
Just finished “The Apollo Murders” by Chris Hadfield (Astronaut) Was
pleasantly surprised at how good it was…Fiction of course..But most of the
Characters were real.
Of course we went to the moon. What do you think all those mooselime scientists were doing, counting goats?
This was a precious highlight of my youth. I wanted to be an astronaut, but I wouldn’t have passed the physical requirements because of ailments I had very young. Then I wanted to be an astronomer, but my math is horrible.
So, I read every science fiction book I could get my hands on and dreamed.
GM – I used to visit the Chrysler electonics plant in the 80s and later on the facility they called Chrysler City on the outskirts and made time to visit Redstone a few times. At the time they had various engines on display outside including a Saturn V engine and standing underneath it and looking up at the center was mind-boggling!
If you are a Bible believer then the Moon is inside or in the firmament. Outside of the firmament would be water.
Happy 16th birthday to me.
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Interesting that it would take considerably longer to develop a new rocket and controls. My close friend that worked on the Apollo spacecraft told me they have all the drawings and schematics but lack one thing, they don’t have the talent or ingenuity to start again. Highly skilled workers, precision custom made machinery, tooling, dies and assemblies. Little, if any components remain and it all has become obsolete and no longer made. Even the space suits were made by the Playtex girdle company and now the materials are no longer available.
I myself designed finite state control systems for one of the land based suppliers.
Moon Rocks and Space Dust.
You put them in your mouth
And they POP!
In the 80s I got to work on NASA ranging equipment (that was built in the 60s) used for tracking and passing telemetry for the Apollo and other missions. Refurb and upgrade to the controller with a PDP-11 computer. The ‘expert’ had gotten fired and I inherited the job.