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Internaut
07-19-2009, 04:09 PM
July 17, 1969
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/apollo_07_15/a18_11365355.jpg
July 19 1969
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yesyadda
07-19-2009, 04:12 PM
Byoootyful!
great stuff
One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind
Sheerah
07-19-2009, 05:21 PM
And who doesn't remember where they were when this happened?
And who doesn't remember where they were when this happened?
I remember. I was at school
We sat around and watched it on a small black and white TV
One Small Step (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCt1BwWE2gA)
YesCarolinita
07-20-2009, 09:33 AM
I was home. What a day. I was 9 years old. Kennedy only cared about the US of A outdoing the Russians-he never cared about the science.
TOBYSGRAPHICGOKART
07-20-2009, 09:38 AM
What a truly fantastic achievement!
I remember at the time thinking...next stop Mars.
I genuinely believed I would be alive to see man walk on the red planet,start to colonize it even.
Looking unlikely now,but you never know,it might just still happen.....
Sheerah
07-20-2009, 04:13 PM
I was home. What a day. I was 9 years old. Kennedy only cared about the US of A outdoing the Russians-he never cared about the science.
During the Cold War we needed to figure out a way that would show the Russians that we were made of sterner stuff. We needed to let Russian know that we could out technologize them. Remember, the Russians were racing us to see who get to the moon first. Apparently Congress agreed.
It took 500,000 NASA employees to get us to the moon. That's a lot of jobs. Remember, it wasn't man that landed on the moon as much as it was America that landed on the moon.
During the Cold War we needed to figure out a way that would show the Russians that we were made of sterner stuff. We needed to let Russian know that we could out technologize them. Remember, the Russians were racing us to see who get to the moon first. Apparently Congress agreed.
Probably because the Soviet Union got all the other important space firsts - Sputnik (first artificial satellite), Laika (first living mammal), Yuri Gagarin (first man in space), Alexei Leonov (first space walk) ...
Earl Grey
07-20-2009, 05:58 PM
Ah, Internaut!
You beat me to the punch. Excellent thread.
I kicked my moon landing thread into the 'Think Tank', with the question: 'Should we go again within a decade?'
The beauty of your photos kind-of say it all.
The lunar landing was so important to me, back when it was the front page news, and is perhaps even more important to me now.
The world was one 40 years ago today.
Isn't it strange how it took us leaving the earth for us to embrace the earth?
That photo of the earth from space has graced the pamphlets of Greenpeace, Earth First, everything from freeze-dried ice cream to classical albums...
When we went to the moon, we looked back upon ourselves.
Every man who walked on the lunar surface was changed.
And the world at large was changed.
We are but a small blue marble rolling about the sun. The earth is hearty, yet *fragile*.
Amazing days, and we're still living in them.
Earl:yesbird:
Internaut
07-20-2009, 06:41 PM
Looking down at the Command and Service Module (center), with the Moon's surface below, as seen from the now-separated Lunar Module (LM), on its way to the surface. The proiminent crater is Schmidt crater. This is the last photo taken from the LM prior to the powered descent, and eventually the landing one orbit later. (NASA)
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Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, photographed by Neil Armstrong (visible in reflection). Buzz Aldrin: "As I walked away from the Eagle Lunar Module, Neil said 'Hold it, Buzz', so I stopped and turned around, and then he took what has become known as the 'Visor' photo. I like this photo because it captures the moment of a solitary human figure against the horizon of the Moon, along with a reflection in my helmet's visor of our home away from home, the Eagle, and of Neil snapping the photo. Here we were, farther away from the rest of humanity than any two humans had ever ventured. Yet, in another sense, we became inextricably connected to the hundreds of millions watching us more than 240,000 miles away. In this one moment, the world came together in peace for all mankind."
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/apollo_07_15/a28_11405903.jpg
Earl Grey
07-20-2009, 07:07 PM
Hilarious, that the only photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon is the reflection of him taking the picture of Buzz, reflected in Buzz's visor.
Sheerah
07-20-2009, 07:14 PM
Here we were, farther away from the rest of humanity than any two humans had ever ventured. Yet, in another sense, we became inextricably connected to the hundreds of millions watching us more than 240,000 miles away. In this one moment, the world came together in peace for all mankind."
I just got goosebumps reading that. It's true. For one moment, humankind was completely united. This may never, ever happen again.
Internaut
07-20-2009, 07:24 PM
Yes, Sheila.. that quote got to me too...
In the visor picture, I never knew that the speck above and between the flag (or whatever it is) and Armstrrong is Earth
John Khatru
07-20-2009, 11:26 PM
an amazing moment... can't say I remember it though...
I got a great NASA book that's got all of those awesome photos and the stories of those early Mercury and Apollo missions
Mah dad got our first clour tellt fer this and it wa in B&W frae the moon... An upside doon tae start wi.
Jeeez tae think I was up at that hour tae sae this live as a wee bairn....
Dinnnae fergeht Tricky Dickies phone call either...
Dribble...
Melissa
07-21-2009, 05:16 AM
That picture gets me, too. What a thing we did - put human beings on our satellite! And there they are, the brave men who represented us in our first steps off the Earth and into the cosmos.
I revived this thread because Ive realised that within the month, not only did the first moon landing occur, but:
Woodstock happened
Abby Road was released.
What a time !!
I know everyone was aware of the significance of the moon landing,, but I wonder about the others.
Woodstock perhaps..
Abby Road ?/ maybe
Internaut
08-09-2009, 06:43 PM
Well, I think both Abbey Road and Woodstock played a major part in the transition of the world of music at that time. Maybe they are just "landmarks" (can't think of the right word here) in the timeline of the evolution of music. Either way, they signify the ending of something special, and the beginning of something new. Although at the time I distinctly remember thinking that new music was over, the supply of new ideas had been taken to the limit and there would be no more good music created in the future... boy, was I wrong!!!
I was spending most of August 1969 in Weekapaug, RI and heard of Woodstock on the radio all the time as it was such a sensation... I wanted to go, but it was already too late and I was a bit too young at the time, so I would have been in serious trouble (((-:
It was also the time of the Sharon Tate murders at the hands of the Manson family... )-:
YesCarolinita
08-09-2009, 08:31 PM
During the Cold War we needed to figure out a way that would show the Russians that we were made of sterner stuff. We needed to let Russian know that we could out technologize them. Remember, the Russians were racing us to see who get to the moon first. Apparently Congress agreed.
It took 500,000 NASA employees to get us to the moon. That's a lot of jobs. Remember, it wasn't man that landed on the moon as much as it was America that landed on the moon.
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