How soon we forget.....I was 17 years old
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Rick
How soon we forget.....I was 17 years old
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html
Rick
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" Don't criticize a man until you walk a mile in his shoes. And then who cares! You are a mile away and you have his shoes!!"
Thanks for the reminder Rick! I had just turned 17 in the April of that year too and heck it seems a long time ago now.
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Your welcome Roger
Does seem ages ago....
My achy joints remind me everyday!
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" Don't criticize a man until you walk a mile in his shoes. And then who cares! You are a mile away and you have his shoes!!"
I was still under 2 at the time so I didn't appreciate it at the time but once I learned to read some years later, I was captivated by the truly a remarkable feat.
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I was 16... and I thought it was truly amazing that we landed on the moon, and left footprints up there.
Some years later, a film was produced out of Hollywood that depicted that the moon landing was a hoax. The film was "Capricorn One" and starred among others, O.J. Simpson... who at this moment is in attendance of his Parole Hearing.
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I was three years and 364 days old, and I still remember it!
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" Don't criticize a man until you walk a mile in his shoes. And then who cares! You are a mile away and you have his shoes!!"
Papab,
Thanks for the reminder; it does seem like long ago and far away; in some ways I think we've regressed since then.
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One of the most interesting links concerning the landing.....
http://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/
Thanks for the link-brings back memories!
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" Don't criticize a man until you walk a mile in his shoes. And then who cares! You are a mile away and you have his shoes!!"
I was 7 months old but I swear - and I have done all my life - I remember this. Weird, I know.
I was just 20 and watched with my fellow soldiers in the day room while at AIT in Ft. Gordon, GA.
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" Don't criticize a man until you walk a mile in his shoes. And then who cares! You are a mile away and you have his shoes!!"
I was only 9, but my parents let me stay home from school to watch the landing. I STILL remember it. I promptly built a model of the CSM and LEM both, and hung them from the roof in my bedroom. At school, for science class, they let us build model rockets, and I build a Saturn 5. Took 4 engine to make it fly, but it was AWESOME.
Later, I went to the Cape for a manual editing meeting for my job. Got to see one of the V-2 pads, and the blockhouse for it. They had an alligator that sunned it's self on the roof above the entrance. Everybody just ignored him, and he returned the favor.
We took lunch at the Sailor's Choice, a hole-in-the-wall burger joint, right outside the main gate, near the VAB, and right beside the viewing area that had so many in it for the Mercury through Apollo mission launches. Where the news media were placed, too. Sailor's Choice is the only topless burger joint I've ever been to! And right in the middle of our meal they launched the shuttle. Really amazing to watch, although very far away. By the time the noise got there, the shuttle was up and out of sight. Every one in the joint ran outside to watch the launch, even the waitresses...
I just wish America still had the will to explore space. Sad that we went from Mercury through Apollo in a decade, then restricted our stuff to Low Earth Orbit. Nasa, or NaySay I call them like Burt Rutan does, just turned into a bloated bureaucracy. Not worth a darn. And now they've even cancelled the shuttle. We should have moon colonies, Lagrange Stations, Asteroid mining, and so on. Instead, we have to rely on Russia's version of an Apollo CSM for a ride, to low earth orbit. No farther do we go any longer. A few robots here and there, but not many of those, even. It's just sickening, after all we accomplished in the decade of the 60's, then nothing...
Anywho, sorry. I feel strongly about all this...
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14 years old here, clearly recall watching it BBC TV with Patrick Moore & Michael Burke as enthusiastic commentators. In my minds eye it was in glorious colour even though I know it was blurry lo-res B&W. Odd how the mind works
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" Don't criticize a man until you walk a mile in his shoes. And then who cares! You are a mile away and you have his shoes!!"
I read the details in the Stars and Stripes while vacationing at government expense in beautiful but wet, slimy, and dangerous Vietnam! I have seen the replays many times since then.
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Ted,
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