45 years ago, Apollo 11 moon landing

ss55 · Jul 20, 2014

July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

rrlund · Jul 20, 2014

Yep. I was just thinking earlier,hard to believe we were that kind of country at one time.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 20, 2014

What an accomplishment. Going 240,000 miles in a spaceship in a few days,landing successfully, launching off again. Then imagine even making it back home another 240,000 miles safely. That is a bunch of miles. Neil Armstrong -- "One small step for man................"

wjytexas · Jul 20, 2014

I was building fence on my Uncle's place in Bastrop county. We stopped and sat under a tree drinking Cokes and listening on a transistor radio. I kept looking up.

rrlund · Jul 20, 2014

Some of the back stories about things that went wrong are real interesting and even scary. I believe it was Apollo 11 where Armstrong himself broke a switch with his space suit when he got back in and had to use an ink pen to reach down inside to flip something to get back off the moon.
They were just telling this morning about 12 being hit by lightning. They didn't know how much damage was done,didn't know if the parachute would even open if they brought them down right away,so they decided to just let them go on,figured if they were going to die anyway they might as well do as much as they could first.
Then there was what happened with 13 of course.

Spudm · Jul 20, 2014

I remember it was hot that afternoon. We had just got done picking sour cherries, and listening to it on the transistor radio outside in the yard.

fixerupper · Jul 20, 2014

It's been that long ago? I watched it happen on Marilyn's grandparents TV. That was the first summer we dated and the first time I was in her grandparents house. Jim

PDRuff · Jul 20, 2014

I had just turned 4 and remember plain as day the "live from moon" in gray letters across the bottom of the screen....

Frank Dodson · Jul 20, 2014

We were on our honeymoon in Gatlinburg,TN. That means we have been married 45 years!

jennifer408 · Jul 20, 2014

i was 9, dad sat us all in front of the tv, he was soo excited.

Traditional Farmer · Jul 20, 2014

Yea it all seemed pretty exciting back then but really what did we get from all the $$$$ spent doing it?

2 Old 2 care · Jul 20, 2014

Appolo program advanced computer developement by decades in a matter of a few years. Radio/video communications advanced light years. Safety for aircraft in general saw huge advancement from Appolo research. Missle guidance systems were improved. The list goes on from there.

2 Old 2 care · Jul 20, 2014

I remember riding in the back seat of dads '68 Buick listening to the radio when they touched down. We were on our way to New York to visit my Aunt and Uncle. I still remember the chill that went up and down my spine when I heard the words, "Tranquility base here, the Eagle has landed".

rrlund · Jul 20, 2014

Even Velcro came out of it didn't it?

Dean · Jul 20, 2014

Yes, as did Tang.

Dean

Case Nutty 1660 · Jul 20, 2014

all terrain/season tires, cordless tools are two more I can think of, I remember watching it "live" on TV, still remember it like yesterday
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JMS/.MN · Jul 20, 2014

I took still pix with my camera, off of a 12 inch B&W TV sitting on the floor in my apartment. Not much for furniture. Still have the pix in my "favorites" manila folder.

Whichester1 · Jul 20, 2014

How could we do this 45 years ago and not control the Ash Bore today?

1948CaseVAI · Jul 20, 2014

(quoted from post at 17:18:25 07/20/14) Yea it all seemed pretty exciting back then but really what did we get from all the $$$$ spent doing it?

I doubt anyone could even begin to list the things we have that to we owe to that program.

Mark - IN. · Jul 20, 2014

Didn't Buzz Aldrin punch a guy in the nose that told him that Apollo 11 was a fake and cooked up in a hollyweird studio? I think so.

Back when I joined the Army, after basic training they mistakenly classified me as a 21L and sent me to Redstone Arsonal in Alabama to repair Pershing missles, when they were supposed to send me to Ft. Gordon, GA as a 26L to repair microwave radios. For the week that I was at Redstone while they corrected my paperwork, I didn't do anything but sight see. On one side of the hill in Huntsville was Redstone, and on the other side was a NASA museum where they had a lot of neat stuff, like a Saturn IV rocket as in Apollo. One huge rocket. Also in Huntsville was Morton Thiokol, the people that made the T6 aluminum o-ring that got blamed for the Challenger explosion. I walked through the lathe that cut those o-rings with a finished o-ring still mounted. The lathe was vertical, taller than a 2 story house. Huge.

Mark

Anonymous-0 · Jul 21, 2014

It was a said day when we gave up those Saturn rockets and went with the Space Shuttle. Seriously who needs a shuttle that can only go from Florida to California with no stops on the way, can take up to 19 days to do it, and it only holds 7 people. Over 30 years the 5 of them only made 135 trips, and 2 of those crashed. And expensive !

Donald Lehman · Jul 21, 2014

AlanA · Jul 21, 2014

(quoted from post at 06:53:13 07/21/14) It was a said day when we gave up those Saturn rockets and went with the Space Shuttle. Seriously who needs a shuttle that can only go from Florida to California with no stops on the way, can take up to 19 days to do it, and it only holds 7 people. Over 30 years the 5 of them only made 135 trips, and 2 of those crashed. And expensive !

The most powerful machine ever built by man. The FUEL PUMP was, iirc, 55,000 HP.

We might return, but I doubt the language will be English...

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