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sonofabeach wrote:

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.

I can imagine there were quite a few bigger things on his mind.

I couldn't embed this video of Buzz Aldrin cold rocking the mic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WthKhHNSCQc

didn't Buzz a few years ago, beat up some guy at a press conference that said the moon landing was fake?

SuperTrooper wrote:AND LEST WE FORGET:


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

I promise I didn't google any of the following info, I actually know these facts:
Virgil I. ("Gus") Grissom was America's second man in space, following Alan Shepherd's historic first flight in May of 1961. Grissom flew a 15-minute sub-orbital flight on "Liberty Bell 7" (Mercury 2) in July of 1961.
In March of 1965, he and John Young (who later walked on the moon on the Apollo 16 mission) flew on America's first two man space mission on Gemini 3.
Grissom was to be America's first man to fly on each of the nation's space programs-Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.
Instead, that distinction belongs to the late Walter Schirra. (Faith 7/Mercury 5, Gemini 6, and Apollo 7).
White flew aboard Gemini 4, America's second two-man mission, with James McDivitt (who also flew on the Apollo 9 mission, which was the first test flight of the Lunar Module), and became America's first man to "walk" in space.
Apollo 1 was to be Roger Chaffee's first flight. He was just 31 years old at the time of his tragic death.

The Apollo 11 mission was the second and last space flight for all three crew members.
Neil Armstrong flew aboard Gemini 8 in March of 1966 with David Scott (who also later flew aboard Apollo 9 with McDivitt and also walked on the moon on the Apollo 15 mission). Gemini 8 is the only mission of the 10 Gemini flights in which BOTH astronauts later walked on the moon.

Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin flew aboard Gemini 12 with James Lovell (Gemini 7, Apollo 8, Apollo 13) in September of 1966. This was America's last Gemini flight.

Mike Collins flew aboard Gemini 10 in July of 1966 with John Young (Gemini 3, Apollo 10, and Apollo 16, as well as the very first space shuttle mission in April of 1981).

These are the 12 men who walked on the moon:
Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin-Apollo 11 (Mike Collins, C.M. pilot)-July 1969
Charles "Pete" Conrad & Alan Bean-Apollo 12 (Richard Gordon, C.M. pilot)-November 1969
Alan Shepherd & Edgar Mitchell-Apollo 14 (Stuart Roosa, C.M. pilot)-February 1971
David Scott & James Irwin-Apollo 15 (Alfred Worden, C.M. pilot)-July 1971
John Young & Charles Duke-Apollo 16 (Thomas "Ken" Mattingly, C.M. pilot)-April 1972
Eugene Cernan & Harrison "Jack" Schmidt-Apollo 17 (Ronald Evans, C.M. pilot)-December 1972

Of the 12 men who walked on the moon, 9 are still with us.
Conrad, Shepherd, and Irwin are deceased.
Roosa and Evans have also passed away.

And THAT, my friends, is Professor Garry's history lesson for today.

Fun Moon Related Quiz....

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/07/16/p ... index.html

NASA has just released images from the Lunar Recon Orbiter (LRO) showing the Apollo landing sites.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/m ... sites.html

The base of the lunar landing module is clearly seen at each site. A closeup of the Apollo 14 landing site even shows the footpaths the astronauts made between the lander and some scientific instruments they deployed.

I remember sitting in front of the TV in awe, we actually went to the moon, go figure, at that time, it was unbelievable. I remember all the controversy about it all being fake, and there was a secret studio, where it was all shot

Great images, although the nay-sayers will insist that these are just images of wreckage of some of the unmanned probes (Ranger series?) that were sent crashing into the moon in the early '60s — or claim that the conspiracy is still alive and has dummied up these photos too.....

One thing to remember; the top half of the LEM — a/k/a the ascent stage — was used as the return shuttle to the Command Module, so only the bottom half of the LEM — a/k/a the descent stage (illustration above) — remained at the landing site.
(Here's a link to video of the Apollo 15 ascent stage lifting off from the moon, leaving the descent stage behind.)
Once the two men had rejoined their comrade the unnecessary ascent stage was jettisoned and sent careening into the moon in fulfillment of its final task — to see if vibrations from the impact would be picked up by the scientific data packages left on the surface in an attempt to determine some of the sub-surface qualities of the moon.

And one of the commenters on the site SuperTrooper linked to made an interesting observation; the lunar rovers from Apollo 15, 16, and 17 should be visible as well. In fact, here's a little humorous link to some of the space junk left on the moon, used-car style:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-F ... wsNum=1031.

-"BB"-
PS: Note that this post should also resolve, once and for all, any lingering questions as to my GQ (geek quotient).

sonofabeach wrote: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.

I also read that at the time. (One small step for A man).

Frank4 wrote:didn't Buzz a few years ago, beat up some guy at a press conference that said the moon landing was fake?

If he didn't, he should have.

Anyway, when I watched the landing on the moon 40 years ago, I was at my grandparent's house, watching it with my grandfather, grandmother, and great uncle.
So, yesterday at the exact minute of the landing (3:17 PM Central time), I was at the cemetery where they're all buried. They're all buried next to each other, so I stayed there for several minutes remembering that afternoon at their house 40 years ago, and YA KNOW, wuss that I am, I started to cry a little. It was another time, another place, and (seemingly) another life.
But, it was definately a good cry.
What great people they were. What great memories.
And last night I watched "Moonshot" with footage of Walter Cronkite and former astronaut Wally Schirra. I remembered it all.

I also remember my father saying that, had it not been for Walter Cronkite, he probably wouldn't have bought a TV set until he was 50 years old.

Has it really taken this long for someone to post Jimmy's song about going to the Moon?
...even discounting the most obvious "Beach House On the Moon" shout out...
there's still this..Come to the Moon :sigh:
There are obviously a scant few of us that realize, er recognize both Jimmy's appreciation (as well as our own) of the heavens and the mysteries the galaxy holds in store for us.

I can't believe the lack of respect for the monumental achievement that the Apollo 11 Moon landing accomplishment played in our nations history.
While I respect that many of you may have been too young to have witnessed the events of July 20, 1969 on your grainy television sets, I KNOW that many of you were not.

I've rewritten this post at least a dozen times, but the most respectful thing I can say is you should watch and learn from the this website: http://www.wechoosethemoon.org/
And if you have the opportunity to watch anything on your own information sets, please do so...

There is information, photographs, documents, audio, videos, and much more about the Apollo 11 Moon Mission, which you can peruse at your leisure.

Make your own decision. Listen and learn.
There was no conspiracy.

This is the way I saw it...40 years ago...
And that's the way it was.

Dez

I just read a story on Huffington Post. It was titled Buzz Armstrong Punches Moon Landing Conspiracy Theorist in the Face.
I wish I knew how to do a link to the story - maybe someone can. But it's great to see Buzz Aldrin punch this idiot in the face when confronted. It made me feel good!

Wino you know wrote:

sonofabeach wrote: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.

I also read that at the time. (One small step for A man).

Frank4 wrote:didn't Buzz a few years ago, beat up some guy at a press conference that said the moon landing was fake?

If he didn't, he should have.

Anyway, when I watched the landing on the moon 40 years ago, I was at my grandparent's house, watching it with my grandfather, grandmother, and great uncle.
So, yesterday at the exact minute of the landing (3:17 PM Central time), I was at the cemetery where they're all buried. They're all buried next to each other, so I stayed there for several minutes remembering that afternoon at their house 40 years ago, and YA KNOW, wuss that I am, I started to cry a little. It was another time, another place, and (seemingly) another life.
But, it was definately a good cry.
What great people they were. What great memories.
And last night I watched "Moonshot" with footage of Walter Cronkite and former astronaut Wally Schirra. I remembered it all.

I also remember my father saying that, had it not been for Walter Cronkite, he probably wouldn't have bought a TV set until he was 50 years old.

Thanks for sharing, that's a great memory.

It's been kind of cool for me at age 40 to read everyone's memories of where they were when Apollo landed on the moon. I was 3 months old and they propped me up in front of the television and I fell over and watched Neil Armstrong on my side.