Apollo 11 - The 40th Anniversary

[Bjoern]

Watch it "live" here:

http://wechoosethemoon.com/

I think one of the beers I'll guzzle down tonight (end of exams for this semester) will be dedicated to NASA for pulling off this remarkable feat of engineering. :ernae:

[Rami]

Actually, I sent an e-mail to all of my students for September and to them that if they watched the episode on the History Channel and wrote a one page report as a Summer Project, I would give them one test during the year that they could skip, provided it wasn't a final or a midterm.

I got nine responses...

[kilo delta]

I'm gonna kick back and watch The Right Stuff for the umpteenth time tonight!:)

:icon29:

[David_L6]

I'm watching now. Thanks for posting that link.

[crashaz]

I'm gonna kick back and watch The Right Stuff for the umpteenth time tonight!:)

:icon29:


"Let's light this candle!":applause:

Astronauts still my heros. :)

[Snuffy]

Still got time to schedule this program ... July 20th

History channel ... making claims Apollo 11 saw UFOs ...

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=19320

[kilo delta]

"Let's light this candle!":applause:

Astronauts still my heros. :)

Not to mention...Alan Sheperd's Prayer! :monkies::icon_lol:

:icon29:

[GT182]

I watched the launch of Apollo 11, their touchdown on the Moon, and their return to Earth back in '69. It was a vision come true, and one I'll never forget. :USA-flag:

[Rami]

Do any of you have the Mini-series "From the Earth to the Moon" that Tom Hanks helped produce for HBO?

If not, this is a short excerpt of why I like it as a teaching tool. Scott Glenn as Alan Shepherd was great, but this takes it to another level.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-3MS6duEMY

This is another of my favorite moments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_NZ4rSvBCg

[Terry]

In between showing the current mission the NASA channel is showing a lot of their Apollo footage from all missions. They will probably keep it up through the 20th.

[jhefner]

For those here who have been enjoying the "golden oldies"; the British band The Moody Blues produced an album that was inspired by the Apollo 11 mission. It was titled To Our Children's Children's Children.

Someone did a masterfull job of setting the first three songs of that album to some footage from the Apollo missions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAGcVMTX0Ns

-James

[Roger]

I was 17 and much distracted by the young lady who would, in the fullness of time, become divorce #1:d
However I did manage to watch most of the coverage and remember a young James Burke and Patrick Moore commentating on the BBC.

[Panther_99FS]

Ah.....
We ain't makin' history like we used to...:medals:

[GT182]

For those here who have been enjoying the "golden oldies"; the British band The Moody Blues produced an album that was inspired by the Apollo 11 mission. It was titled To Our Children's Children's Children.

Someone did a masterfull job of setting the first three songs of that album to some footage from the Apollo missions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAGcVMTX0Ns

-James

I've got that album in vinyl and CD. I love playing thier music goin down the road in the GTO. Takes me back to 1968 when they first hit the radio. I even wore out "In Search of the Lost Chord" on the old record player. That album was their crowing glory IMHO. Too bad they sacked Mike Pinder.

[demorier]

I wonder what the conspiracy theorists will make of it ?? (I'm not one of them).

[hewman100]

And because of delays, Endeavour makes it off the pad as well to take components to the ISS.

Strange that the weather cleared enough to let it happen. A reminder from a higher power that we're dragging our feet a bit?

[bretnutz]

I wonder what the conspiracy theorists will make of it ?? (I'm not one of them).

I have seen some very compelling pictures to question the landings...

the pictures and Film that were put out by NASA.....

overlays of a few different Missions that took place at various parts of the moon......with the identical rock formations...and when overlayed they match....

makes me wonder........Capricorn One.

[Bjoern]

I'm watching now. Thanks for posting that link.

No problem.



Ah.....
We ain't makin' history like we used to...:medals:
Well, one a "first" was achieved, it ain't a "first" anymore. Humanity, in the past thousands of years, has already achieved a lot of them, so there aren't many left.

[crashaz]

The moon was marketed as a race... that was the problem. Nobody thought about what would follow.

There are all kinds of 'first's' left to achieve... establish a moon base, mining on the moon, send man to Mars.

Those are just the short range goals. How about making some advances in propulsion?

[Panther_99FS]

, so there aren't many left.

Depends upon how vast your imagination is :mixedsmi:

[crashaz]

Depends upon how vast your imagination is :mixedsmi:


Exactly P!

BTW... for the conspiracy theorists... LCROSS/NASA says take that!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19514_3-10289551-239.html?tag=mncol

[Panther_99FS]

http://www.hasselblad.com/about-hasselblad/hasselblad-in-space/space-cameras.aspx :mixedsmi:

[Bjoern]

Those are just the short range goals. How about making some advances in propulsion?

Ion drives are already in development. All we need now is a FTL drive. :d



Depends upon how vast your imagination is :mixedsmi:

True.

[kilo delta]

Ion drives are already in development. All we need now is a FTL drive. :d


Pftttt....sure I've got a pair of SSD drives!


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[Wing_Z]

I've had this running "live" ever since Bjoern posted the link.
Half an hour or so ago:
"Houston...Tranquility Base...the Eagle has landed!"
Even typing this I get choked up.
It was an astonishing feat of do-or-die, so many things that just had to work right - first time.
Those guys - all of them - had the Right Stuff.

Indeed a Giant Leap for Mankind.

[Roger]

I've had this running "live" ever since Bjoern posted the link.
Half an hour or so ago:
"Houston...Tranquility Base...the Eagle has landed!"
Even typing this I get choked up.
It was an astonishing feat of do-or-die, so many things that just had to work right - first time.
Those guys - all of them - had the Right Stuff.

Indeed a Giant Leap for Mankind.

Me too. Great stuff; momentous stuff...I welled up a little:engel016:

[Snuffy]

Tonight on the history channel ...

http://www.history.com/shows.do?episodeId=464966&action=detail

[Lazerbrainz2k3]

Boeing is the major sponsor behind "Moonshot", they were advertising it with their news network on-site quite a bit today. Which is fitting since in those 40 years they've absorbed the other major partners in building the Apollo-Saturn, except for Grumman.

Should be quite a show!

[PRB]

I started watching it. I didn't realize it was going to be a "dramatization.” The introduction narrator said “most of this if fact”, and some “artistic license” was taken, and we “filled in the gaps” with what “might have happened.” I’m guessing the UFO part will be somewhere in the “gap-filling, artistic-license taking dramatization of what might have happened” part… hehe.

[Dexdoggy]

An awesome moment that will stand forever in time! I remember sitting cross-legged in our school assembly hall (I was in 2nd class, only 7 years old) and watching on the TV live as it happened (12:56pm for Sydney)! I was an absolute nut for this stuff; I even wrote a while later to NASA and they kindly sent a couple of autographs and some Apollo 17 / Skylab Photos (actual prints!) all those years ago to the kid way down in Australia! Those photos still take pride of place on my wall at home today!
Thanks USA and NASA for having the vision to do something like this; you put a huge smile on this kid's face! :applause::applause::applause: