It's the 45th Anniversary of the Moon Landing
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WE call it the cone of shame at our house. The animals seem embarrassed.
Watch the movie Capricorn One.
I've seen it many times. It's a favorite.
Just for the record, I believe the moon landing happened, but this movie is interesting in what could be accomplished, especially in today's world of high tech.
...as an Ohioan, I take justifiable pride in knowing that this state produced two of the greatest astronauts of all time...John Glenn, and Neil....to do what they have accomplished is nothing short of miraculous...and I envy them their experiences....
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
Neil Armstrong
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
Neil Armstrong
As if the moon landings happened that way.
Everyone knows it was a cover up so that Nasa could get stolen Autobot Transformer technology. Michael Bay told me that.
Everyone knows it was a cover up so that Nasa could get stolen Autobot Transformer technology. Michael Bay told me that.
"...step for mankind." Okay CUT! That's a wrap!
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
One small step for man - one giant leap for mankind?
I was in grade school - they gathered us all into the hallway to watch it on a little TV on a pedestal.
(we were just glad to get out of the classroom!)
You are correct. I just checked and I had a revised copy of the original script!
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
My mom, dad, and I watched the proceedings with rapt attention. Like the rest of the NASA team, we were holding our breath until we heard the words, which I don't have to look up, "Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." What we didn't know at the time was that NASA HQ was holding its breath because the lunar module was getting desperately short of fuel as Armstrong maneuvered to land safely.
We sat and watched and talked and listened to the commentary. We were rapt. At close to 10 pm, Mom was getting tired, but we all watched and heard as Neil Armstrong put the first human footprint on the lunar surface.
I was never a fan of the "small step" line. It sounded like an engineer trying to be a poet. Neil Armstrong was as left-brained as they come, a good quality for a lunar pilot, but not so much for dramatic profundities. But it was his line to make, and it's stuck. And as you'd expect from an engineer, it was accurate.
Dad and I kept watching. Mom went to bed. We walked outside now and then on that cloudless night and stared at that bright moon overhead, marveling that there were men strolling about on that big luminescent disc. It seemed like humanity's course had just shifted. If only.
There would be other missions, of course. Apollo 12 got there. Apollo 13 did not, but in failing to do so, it brought the world together in its own heart-stopping way. Apollos 14 through 17 all got there. Even had lunar rovers and golf drives going on. But Apollo 11 was the first, and as we all know, we all remember the first one.
If December 7 and September 11 are days that live in their own infamy, if November 11 is a day that lives in a worldwide sigh of relief, July 20 is a day that should live in a pride of human achievement.
We sat and watched and talked and listened to the commentary. We were rapt. At close to 10 pm, Mom was getting tired, but we all watched and heard as Neil Armstrong put the first human footprint on the lunar surface.
I was never a fan of the "small step" line. It sounded like an engineer trying to be a poet. Neil Armstrong was as left-brained as they come, a good quality for a lunar pilot, but not so much for dramatic profundities. But it was his line to make, and it's stuck. And as you'd expect from an engineer, it was accurate.
Dad and I kept watching. Mom went to bed. We walked outside now and then on that cloudless night and stared at that bright moon overhead, marveling that there were men strolling about on that big luminescent disc. It seemed like humanity's course had just shifted. If only.
There would be other missions, of course. Apollo 12 got there. Apollo 13 did not, but in failing to do so, it brought the world together in its own heart-stopping way. Apollos 14 through 17 all got there. Even had lunar rovers and golf drives going on. But Apollo 11 was the first, and as we all know, we all remember the first one.
If December 7 and September 11 are days that live in their own infamy, if November 11 is a day that lives in a worldwide sigh of relief, July 20 is a day that should live in a pride of human achievement.
Was my first major memory watching it on TV as a four year-old, that, and the images from Vietnam. The invasion of the Moon, 1957-1970 by Peter Ryan is a good book.