40 years ago today! To this day, standing next to a Saturn V is still the most awe-inspiring moment of my life.
40 years ago today! To this day, standing next to a Saturn V is still the most awe-inspiring moment of my life.
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
4-sho! my mom dated a guy who worked at the cape and then later worked there herself. Got to see the bigguns go off up close and personal. Twas like an earthquake man!
Hey- check this out!
www.nasa.gov
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
Cool, the XI shot i remember most was the earth 'rising' behind the moon - whole new perspective. show'n our age here amigo.
Our course my rbother and I went out on the carrier that brought in Glenn's Gemini capsule to see it - that's how old we are, LOL!
Check this out. If you look at the Apollo 14 landing site you can see the footprints of the astronauts!
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LR...ollosites.html
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
We purchased a DVD that has the original unedited broadcast footage of the launch, the time spent on the moon, and the return/splashdown. We watched the entire 2 hours of Aldrin's and Armstrong's activities on the moon. It was great nostalgia to watch the events unfold just as we did 40 years ago.
The DVD also has a 5-camera multi-angle real-time video of the Saturn V launch with audio. While the Saturn V is lifting off the pad, you can manually switch among the 5 hi-res color movie cameras that were mounted at various points on the launch pad and tower. The audio was most impressive and gave my subwoofer a real workout. I can only imagine what is was like to actually have been there at one of the launches!
"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so" -- Douglas Adams
"If something has a 1 in a million chance of occurring, 9 times out of 10 it will happen" -- Terry Pratchett
cool website! I was in Canada when the landing happened playing outside the house and my dad made me come inside and watch it on tv.
No need to ask if I remember where I was when this happened; Glued to the television, of course! Even though I had just turned 6, I can still remember every detail.
VM
If aliens listened to our current top 40, they'd think that the entire planet was populated by sexually ambivalent robots with ethnic insecurity.
Here's a great un-released clip of the "giant leap" part:
Moon Landing
Posted in jest. I'm no "truther"
Last edited by Wilko; 07-20-2009 at 12:11 PM.
well that proves it. the lunar landing was faked. I feel like such a fool now. and to think, I always wanted to be an astronaut.
My parents told me the astronauts landed on July 20 to honor my fourth birthday.Originally Posted by Custom 5
Happy Birthday elicross!
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
ROTMFFLMMFAO!!!
I knew it......phonier than a seven-dollar bill!
"When injustice becomes law then rebellion becomes duty."
I was watching it at my grandmother's, way back in the sticks, more snow than picture on the tube.
If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.--George Harrison
So...on a semi-related note: What is NASA going to do when the shuttle fleet is retired? I've heard they hope to retire it as soon as the end of next year (although I gather nobody really believes they can do it that soon). But how will astronauts get to the ISS once the shuttles are mothballed? Will they hitch rides in Russian capsules, like they did after the Columbia disaster? Will they ride in new U.S. capsules on U.S. multi-stage rockets? What's the deal?
Hitch rides on Soyuz until we get our new (old-style disposable like Soyuz, Apollo, Gemini, etc.) up and running in 2013 or 2015.
Interesting. Thanks for the info!
Yep, new vehicles are part of the Orion program.
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
VM
If aliens listened to our current top 40, they'd think that the entire planet was populated by sexually ambivalent robots with ethnic insecurity.
When I think of that day I think of Water Cronkite...
"We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness." Mark Twain
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