July 20th 1969 We Landed on The Moon
Also, Buzz punching a guy a great.
That's what they want you to believe.
I saw a documentary on the Soviet space program a few years back. They had video or pictures of the inside of the Soviet lunar module. It looked like something out of a 1950s movie interpretation of a Jules Verne novel.
Mandatory.
Oh btw, I highly recommend the movie "First Man." Phenomenal job by Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong and never becomes a jingoistic, rah-rah flick, but rather focuses on how remarkable the achievement was in face of the failures and public pressures.
It was a really good movie, but it made Neal look like an obtuse ass. I know he wasn't an outgoing person (more interested in flying than anything else), but I can't help but believe that Gosling made him more inward than he actually was...
I loved his portrayal. It's far and away the best portrayal of an engineer that I have ever seen in a movie. He might also be my favorite male protagonist in Hollywood in at least a decade. No huge muscles. No one liners. No cape and no boots. Just a determined stoicism, fanatical devotion to a mission to benefit mankind, and a willingness to make any sacrifice to achieve it.
I'l l second this recommendation.I love the movie too. It's the best movie that I have ever seen when it comes to portraying how damn hard it is for space travel to exist. Not many movies have tried. Apollo 13 and The RIght Stuff are the only ones that come to mind, but both were heavily Hollywooded up. First Man feels totally authentic. If they added any bullshit to it, then they did it very artfully
Ok, guys, I am sold. I just requested a copy from my library.
We should honor those who blazed the trail for the humans...
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RIP Laika. I just read that wiki page, and now I'm sad.
Finish this sentence:
"Modern science was able to put a man on the moon, yet.... "
"... something something MGoPoints something something."
i think the points have jiggled lately. strange.
Apparently the points are now working. So from now I can say "We can put a man on the moon AND something something MGoPoints..."
We still have no idea what "targeting" actually means.
This is the winner.
Baltimore still doesn't have a really good Italian restaurant.
Sometimes a dude deserves to get punched. That seems like the proper response from Aldrin.
nice form, too. forearm in line with fist, right to the button. well done.
i'm not the only one on this list who saw the landing 'live' (or should i say, 'live in studio'?).
truly an epic moment. it shows how powerful it is as an achievement that it has stood the test of time. 'one small step for man, one giant step for mankind'.
I’m gonna guess it was on tv in our apartment, but since I was about 8 weeks old, it probably didn’t make a huge impression on me.
i am so tired of the 'i don't remember it, i was only 8 weeks old' excuse. can't we do better than that?
How about this one. I was 363 days old and remember sitting on one end of the couch watching it on our black and white TV while my mom sat on the other end folding cloth diapers. My older brother was on the floor playing. I described this scene to my mom a few years ago and she said that's exactly what happened.
Good for Buzz!
I was 4, and remember watching the landing and moonwalk at a neighbor's house. Snippets, but I do remember those snippets vividly.
I was 16 and spent the night at a friend's house drinking gin and Schweppes Bitter Lemon, which was an entirely appropriate state of mind in which to watch Armstrong climb down that ladder.
My first drink was Peppermint Schnapps when I was a kid. Soooo nasty straight after like the third drink. Didn't drink again until I was a senior in high school.
I was 11 years old and I remember staying up late to watch the astronauts walk on the moon. It was so exciting to see it happening. My grandmother was with us, too. She was born before the Wright Brothers build their first plane. Talk about the progression of technology over one's life.
The Saturn V rocket used by Apollo is the largest "analog" machine ever built. Every Saturn V launch was successful. Pretty amazing.
The Saturn is still the most powerful rocket we've ever built. Even NASA's newest design, the SLA (Space Launch Vehicle), meant to eject peeps out of Earth orbit all the way to Mars, is smaller. Some dipstick authorized the destruction of the Saturn design plans because we'd never need them again. Werner Von Braun is still a better rocket scientist than all the rocket scientists we have today!
"Some dipstick authorized the destruction of the Saturn design plans because we'd never need them again."
One of the stupidest bureaucratic decisions in the entirety of human history. Whoever made that decision should have been put into orbit and shoved out the airlock without a suit.
Yes, but.
The plans wouldn't really do anybody any good if we had them, because we no longer can make the machines that can make the rocket parts, and we also no longer can make the machines that can make the machines that can make the rocket parts.
Also, who needs the plans when we have 2 complete, once-functional Saturn V rockets that we never launched, broken up and rusting in the humidity of places like Houston and Huntsville and Cape Canaveral? We built 15 of the things, but Congress only paid for 13 to be launched. What would we have done with the plans anyway? Build more rockets that the government lacked the courage to use?
All of that may be true, but just from a historical standpoint they should have been saved. How much room could the plans take up anyhow?
To be fair, a peep is just a small marshmallow candy - so you can get away with designing a smaller rocket.
Same here. 11 years old and constantly moving the rabbit ears to see that grainy picture. I'll never forget.
I met Neil Armstrong once - at a Kroger in Hyde Park (Cincinnati), Ohio. Chatted with him for only 2 minutes, but I was impressed with his grace and the conversation still sticks with me.
He experienced what we can only imagine - to leave Earth and literally step foot on another heavenly body.
IMO, we NEED as a human species to dream big. That, IMO, is not a want but is rather a NEED. Let's step foot on Mars sometime in my lifetime (hopefully I have 40-ish years left).
My family and I met John Glenn at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in DC about 23 years ago. He was giving a tour to some folks (must have been high level political donors) and as they passed by us we went with the flow.
I introduced my kids to him during a break from his talking. He must of known we weren't with the crowd he was showing around, but he responded, said hello to all of us and was really a decent about the whole thing.
When I was 7 Dad took us to the Air and Space Museum. I remember looking inside the Friendship 7 capsule and seeing a mannequin dressed in a space suit, as a stand-in for John Glenn. But to my 7-year-old mind, I thought it WAS Glenn - that he'd died, had been stuffed, and was now on permanent display in his capsule.
I broke into tears at the horrible thought, which confused the hell out of my family, because up until then I'd been having a good time. Once my Mom understood, she took several minutes to explain to me that it was just a dummy, and that taxidermy hadn't been performed on America's space hero.
I was relieved to hear that John Glenn hadn't been stuffed. For that matter, I'm sure Glenn was, too.
I'm glad to see the private sector picking up space exploration. The government has been pretty lame the last 20 years. We are saving some bucks not having the Russians send our astronauts to the international space station.
Absolutely, yes.
During the Apollo program, NASA received as much funding as the military, and that was during the Vietnam war!
Imagine what they could do with that much money today.
... and people thought the TV screen at Jerry World was big. Just wait.
I remember my parents having the entire family watching it on a Sunday afternoon.. One of the few things I remember when I was about to turn 6, I was just getting into wanting to be a firefighter, astronaut and archaeologist.
I used to think it was fun arguing with the conspiracy theorists. But the ones I know jump from conspiracy to conspiracy. I've been told the moon landing was staged in a garage in Cleveland, the earth is flat, and the sun revolves around the earth. Oh, and my new favorite is that the relatives of Goliath (yes, that Goliath) live in the mountains of Afghanistan and the U.S. knows about it.
Space maybe the final frontier, but its made in a Hollywood basement.
Go Blue.
Such a great album all the way through. I feel bad, they used to be my favorite band, but I really haven't gotten into any of their albums after californication, outside of a couple songs.
My wife's birthday is today. She was 10 years old on that day in 1969. We still have a set of moon landing glasses from some gas station deal from back in the day.
I know how you feel. I still have a pair of BTTF 2 glasses I got from Pizza Hut when I was 10. First the moon landing, then hover boards, truly an amazing leap in technology. I just wish the parents wouldn't have kept them from selling the hover boards to us kids.
I remember watching as much coverage of Apollo 11 as we could find back in those days of antenna TV, I think back then we were able to pick up 5 channels (in the GR area): Channel 3 WKZO Kalamazoo, WOOD-TV 8 Grand Rapids, WZZM-13 GR, WUHQ 41 Battle Creek, and WGVU (PBS) 35-Grand Valley State U. We didn't have a rotor on our rooftop antenna, but did live on top of a hill so we occasionally picked up a few fringe stations too.
Did you listen to WLS-Chicago, WBZ-Boston or WABC-NY for Rock ‘n Roll when the signals were just right on a warm summer night?
I listened a lot of top-40 rock on both WLS and WCFL as a kid growing up in Grand Rapids. Both those Chicago rock stations had strong signals on AM radio, even in the daytime.
I think I remember picking up a Boston and a NYC station or two at nighttime and I do remember WABC being one of them, but most of the time in the summer I'd be listening to the Tigers night games on my transistor radio and sometimes even the Cincinnati Reds or St. Louis Cardinals (Harry Carey did their play-by-play back then).