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40th anniversary of the moon landing - July 20

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by OnTheRiver, Jul 14, 2009.

  1. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    When we'd go to the NASA Glenn Center for school field trips or whatever, I'd stock up on the astronaut ice cream. That stuff was AWESOME.
     
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  2. Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell

    Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell Active Member

    "December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" was changed from 1933 for similar reasons.
     
  3. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    In the Year 2525 was actually about the French and Indian Wars.
     
  4. Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously Well-Known Member

    Seven, almost eight years old. Watched on TV and went out into yard to look at the moon with and without a telescope. Could not wrap my mind around it.
     
  5. kleeda

    kleeda Active Member

    Had moved into a new house two weeks prior at age 3 years and 5 months. Nothing about the move left an impression, but the 40 or so gathered in our den to watch the moon landing did. It's the first memory of my childhood, only matched in awe by the Mets winning the World Series a few months later as my mom sewed a new dress for my 9-year-old sister. It was a good year for me.
     
  6. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    Was six years old and absolutely amazed that we could go that far. I used to see planes in the sky at night and think "there goes President Nixon checking on the nation." Seriously. the wonders of being a kid.
     
  7. highlander

    highlander Member

    I was five when it happened.

    I'm still amazed that in less than a span of 70 years, man went from its first motorized flight to landing on the Moon. Then in the next 40 years, practically nothing manned space flight wise has happened. Oh, the Space Shuttle is nifty, but you'd think a manned mission to Mars would have been possible by now. I know that's a heck of a long trip.
     
  8. Colton

    Colton Active Member

    highlander: Completely agree. In regards to the moon, I can't shake the been-there-done-that (a longgggg time ago) feeling.
     
  9. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    I know the moon landing was fake because, duh, James Bond stole the moonbuggy from Willard Whyte's lab.

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    Definitely one of the top 10 dumbest moments in the Bond canon, er I mean, we faked it!
     
  10. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    You saw a Leafs Stanley Cup Parade? You ARE ancient...
     
  11. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

    According to my father, who worked at the Cape between 1960-1965 and Mission Control in Houston from 1965 through 1968, the laptop you're typing on has expontentially more computational power and speed than the mainframes NASA used to send men to the moon in 1969.

    To me, that may be the single-most amazing thing about the whole effort. Engineers were still doing complex calculations on slide rules, because the rudimentary "personal" calculators of the day only had four functions: add, subtract, multiply and divide.
     
  12. Trey Beamon

    Trey Beamon Active Member

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    "No way. That's great ..."

     
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