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Wino you know wrote:

Frank4 wrote:I did not know that...those guys are huge heroes to me. I got to meet Jim Lovell once a couple of years ago. It's very rare when a hero meets our expectations. He met mine. Apollo 8 is still my favorite mission

One of my favorite photos of all time was taken by Jim Lovell on Apollo 8.

It's this one:

Earthrise...one of my favorites.

I'd love to find a copy of that somewhere

Frank4 wrote:Earthrise...one of my favorites.

I'd love to find a copy of that somewhere

Sorry.
This was the best I could do.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/Apollo8 ... otosFS.gif

Might have to pop in "From the Earth to the Moon" this weekend

I watched a DVD last night called "To the Moon."
It's about 10 years old, but still enjoyable to watch.

Wino you know wrote:

Frank4 wrote:I did not know that...those guys are huge heroes to me. I got to meet Jim Lovell once a couple of years ago. It's very rare when a hero meets our expectations. He met mine. Apollo 8 is still my favorite mission

One of my favorite photos of all time was taken by Jim Lovell on Apollo 8.

It's this one:

in my best Jerry Fletcher voice:
Hey where are the stars in that pic? & just how the heck did the producers forget to add stars?

sonofabeach wrote:in my best Jerry Fletcher voice:
Hey where are the stars in that pic? & just how the heck did the producers forget to add stars?

It's a mystery that will never be solved.

I was 10 at the time, and I remember it like it was yesterday. Every boy of that era wanted to be them. I built models of all the space capsules and rockets. I had the poster of the Apollo 11 astronauts on my wall. Space was the big frontier then. It wasn't fantasy like Star Wars, it was real.

The greatest memory I have of that time is from a year later. We were visiting my uncle in the local VA hospital. Alan Sheppard grew up a few miles down the road in Derry, NH and was visiting with the veterans. He shook my hand and sat on the edge of my uncle's bed for a couple of minutes, so we were at eye level. He asked me if I had any questions. I asked: "Mr. Sheppard, are you going to go to the moon?" He looked me in the eye and said: "Son, there is NOTHING that can keep me from going to the moon." Then he stood up and tussled the hair on my head and moved on. (I had hair then.) I was in heaven.

When I think back on it, I can still "feel" him touch my head. The day he died I cried.

Was lucky enough to grow up (well grow up is a relative term) down here and saw all the Apollo launches.....big celebrations going on at the Space Center this week....

I was 13 at the time. I'll always remember Neil Armstrong's statement, "That's one small step for man, one
giant leap for mankind." I said to myself, "Wow, what a cool thing to say."

SuperTrooper wrote:I was 10 at the time, and I remember it like it was yesterday. Every boy of that era wanted to be them. I built models of all the space capsules and rockets. I had the poster of the Apollo 11 astronauts on my wall. Space was the big frontier then. It wasn't fantasy like Star Wars, it was real.

The greatest memory I have of that time is from a year later. We were visiting my uncle in the local VA hospital. Alan Sheppard grew up a few miles down the road in Derry, NH and was visiting with the veterans. He shook my hand and sat on the edge of my uncle's bed for a couple of minutes, so we were at eye level. He asked me if I had any questions. I asked: "Mr. Sheppard, are you going to go to the moon?" He looked me in the eye and said: "Son, there is NOTHING that can keep me from going to the moon." Then he stood up and tussled the hair on my head and moved on. (I had hair then.) I was in heaven.

When I think back on it, I can still "feel" him touch my head. The day he died I cried.

That's a great story thanks for sharing that....wow

Good Gosh.. 40 years???? I remember that so well.... Watched it on TV and then decorated my classroom all in space stuff.. It was my first year of teaching.. I sure wish I had all those pictures that I had then today!!! It was so much fun to go to the Kennedy Space Center a couple of months ago and see all of the great things they have down there!!!

I was fifteen and we were at our summer cottage - we knew how major this was because my dad actually brought a TV out there (we never had TV there, or a phone then . . . it was his sanctuary from his busy life as a veterinarian to be on vacation there) for us to watch the moon landing. I remember my little brother running out onto the porch and pointing into the night sky, saying, "I SEE them! I DO!".

Great memories!

Goosebumps!! Cheers to all of you for sharing your memories and experiences... I'll be checking in with my siblings to hear theirs - they would have been between 7 and 17.

I may have to check in to some of these:

Authors fly kids (and parents) to the moon for Apollo tribute

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news ... ooks_N.htm (see link for pretty pix of covers)

The 40th anniversary on July 20 of Apollo 11's landing on the moon has launched a shelf's worth of illustrated books for kids, including two by men who walked on the moon. USA TODAY's looks at the lunar lineup.

Look to the Stars (Putnam's, $17.99, ages 6 and up) is by Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon. (The first, Neil Armstrong, is more reticent.) With paintings by Wendell Minor, it reviews the history of space exploration. Aldrin modestly notes that "nearly 400,000 dedicated people worked on Project Apollo and I thank them, one and all!"

Mission Control, This Is Apollo, (Viking, $23.99, 10 and up) by Andrew Chaikin and Alan Bean (the fourth man on the moon) reviews Apollo's 12 biggest missions, based on interviews with 28 astronauts.

Footprints on the Moon (Candlewick, $16.99) by Mark Haddon, illustrated by Christian Birmingham. The author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time re-creates his boyhood dreams of walking on the moon.

Moon: Science, History and Mystery (Scholastic $18.99, ages 9 to 12) by Stewart Ross. This is an illustrated reference book on both the moon and the Apollo mission.

One Small Step: Celebrating the First Men on the Moon (Roaring Brook, $24.95, ages 6 to 10) by Jerry Stone. Interactive scrapbook is designed to look as if it were created by a 12-year-old space enthusiast.

One Giant Leap (Philomel, $16.99, ages 6 to by Robert Burleigh, illustrated by Mike Wimmer. Leap offers a realistic artistic portrayal of the original moon walk.

And for grown-ups, new moon books include ...

Magnificent Desolation(Harmony, $27) by Buzz Aldrin with Ken Abraham. The candid memoir covers how the lunar landing almost failed and how, back on Earth, Aldrin struggled with depression and alcoholism.

Alan Bean: Painting Apollo by Alan Bean (Smithsonian Books, $39.99). The book includes 100-plus paintings of the moon, by the astronaut-turned-artist who was there.

Voices From the Moon (Viking Studio, $45) by Andrew Chaikin with Victoria Kohl. Voices offers excerpts from interviews with 23 Apollo astronauts.

The Book of the Moon (Walker, $27) by Rick Stroud. Book shares all things lunar, from moon gravity (about one-sixth of Earth's) to a three-page list of popular music about the moon.

Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon (Viking, $27.95) by Craig Nelson. It's the detailed history of the politics and technology that drove Apollo 11.

HERE THEY ARE:



NEIL A. ARMSTRONG, AGE 38.


EDWIN A. ("BUZZ") ALDRIN, AGE 39.


MICHAEL COLLINS, AGE 38.


35 YEARS LATER, JULY 21, 2004. THREE FORMER ASTRONAUTS AND A FORMER GOVERNOR OF TEXAS.




AND LEST WE FORGET:

Happy 40th anniversary to the first MEN on the moon!!! Thank you for daring to go where no man had gone before!!!!!

Thanks everyone for sharing your memories about such a great time in our nation's history!

and thanks Joann for that list of books! I think i will pick a few of those up!

AND LEST WE FORGET:


Who can name them? NO GOOGLING!!!!!

big john wrote:I was 13 at the time. I'll always remember Neil Armstrong's statement, "That's one small step for man, one
giant leap for mankind." I said to myself, "Wow, what a cool thing to say."

He actually botched that line. It was supposed to be "one small step for a man". But I think he gets a pass since there were bigger things on his mind.

Tiki Bar wrote:Web site recreates Apollo 11 mission in real time

Now, they'll be able to watch the Apollo 11 mission recreated in real time on the Web, follow Twitter feeds of transmissions between Mission Control and the spacecraft, and even get an e-mail alert when the lunar module touches down. Those features are part of a new Web site from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum commemorating the moon mission and Kennedy's push to land Americans there first.

"Putting a man on the moon really did unite the globe," said Thomas Putnam, director of the JFK Library. "We hope to use the Internet to do the same thing."

The Web site — http://www.WeChooseTheMoon.org — goes live at 8:02 a.m. Thursday, 90 minutes before the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla. It will track the capsule's route from the Earth to the Moon, ending with the moon landing and Armstrong's walk — in real time, but 40 years later.

Just started... an hour 20 minutes to countdown!!

SuperTrooper wrote:AND LEST WE FORGET:


Who can name them? NO GOOGLING!!!!!

I can.
from left to right: Virgil "Gus" Grissom; Ed White; and Roger Chaffee.
(I did have to get help to match the names with the faces, though)

-"BB"-

My mother made sure I saw it because it was part of our history, so I was sitting there watching it on TV in back and white. Sounds strange, how long have I been watching tv in color?