Just a twinkle in my dad's eye...well, maybe not, he was only 11 during the moon landing.
Is....Imgoblue1 your dad??
We didn't land on the moon.
Next?
meh.
Tell the Soviet Union.
Tell Buzz Aldrin's fist.
The funny thing is it’s not public knowledge we have inhabited Mars.
Not true. They made a movie about it called The Martian.
*documentary
Alex Jones says hi.
Correct. When asked about going back to the moon, NASA Astronaut Don Pettit claims “we don’t have that technology anymore and it’s too painful to build it back.”
NASA admits they lost all the telemetry data from the moon landing. They also admit to recording over all of the original tapes. You know, the tapes proving the “greatest achievement in the history of mankind.”
The “live broadcast” from the moon (238,900 miles away) in 1969 is preposterous.
I don't think NASA needs the telemetry data from 1969 to land on the moon anymore, pretty sure they can figure it out.
“Pretty sure they can figure it out”
Maybe you should call and remind them. Every President since Reagan has promised to go back to the moon.
Well...We’re waiting.
You do realize it's not the telemetry data preventing us from going back correct? Source - Aerospace Engineer who worked at NASA.
I do realize that.
What’s preventing us from going is that it’s impossible. We never went. We’re never going to go.
Lol, ok then, I guess you also think the world is flat and that I should just burn my Michigan diploma then? No use trying to have a logical discussion with a conspiracy theorist.
Sitting in front of the TV. My grandmother, who was raised in a small dirt poor village in the Polish countryside, didn't believe any of it and got up and went to bed just as Armstrong descended down the ladder.
I miss her.
OK, now I think the Moon landing was faked.
I mean, they want me to believe that Lance Armstrong went to outer space?
And he did it with only one ball. What's your excuse again?
Remember watching the moon landing on our 19" b/w tv. Also watched Ruby shoot Oswald live on same tv. Didn't get a color set till 1972. Just in time for the Munich Olympics.
But in the mid- and late-1960s, when the Apollo computers were designed, programmed and built, they were in fact just a few years ahead of our ability to manufacture their circuitry. Computer chips and computer memory were in their infancy—indeed, the Apollo computer was the first computer of any significance to use integrated circuits, computer chips.
The Apollo computers were designed with a kind of memory called “core rope memory.” It was the densest computer memory available at that moment in time—between 10 and 100 times more efficient, in terms of weight and space, of any other memory available, absolutely essential on spacecraft where weight and space were always at a premium.
But core rope memory suffered from one small problem: It had to be made by hand.
Each wire representing a 1 or a 0 in the computer program had to be positioned with absolute precision, by a person, using a needle, and wire instead of thread. A wire threaded through the center of a tiny ring-shaped magnet was a one. A wire threaded to the outside of that magnet was a zero.
And so the most remarkable computer of its era—not just a space-age computer, but a spaceship flight computer—had circuitry that was hand-woven, by women, many of them former textile workers, in a Raytheon factory in Waltham, Massachusetts.
https://www.history.com/news/moon-landing-technology-inventions-computers-heat-shield-rovers
The first programmable telephone switch used a variant of this memory. Given it was a telephone switch that had to operate 24/7, the main program store memory itself was a set of aluminum cards with small square magnets. Each row was a word of memory. If the magnet was activated, it was a one. No charge was a zero. So, yes, you could literally see what a bit of memory looked like. Programming the cards was done with a crazy machine that pulled a rack of cards out and magnetized/demagnetized the bits.
So, yeah, I too marvel at the state of technology used to get men to the moon 50 years ago as I sat on the floor, 11 years old, looking at a fuzzy black and white TV picture. This totally inspired me to be an engineer.
Finally, the Saturn 5 rocket was the largest analog machine ever built.
My son's Saturn V Lego rocket is the largest Lego set we've ever built. I'm glad I have one kid who's a nerd like his old man.
Fricking Awesome. Thank you. 400,000 stories.
I love looking at the responses of those who were not around 50 years ago. It's laughable and its total explanation of what's going on today.
Thank you.
This world would absolutely suck without woman.
Username checks out.
I was expecting a Buckeye troll telling me UM won their last consensus NC 50 years ago. Pleasant surprise
If we really want to rub salt in the wound, the last consensus title was over 70 years ago. 1948, if memory serves.
They can lay claim to Neil Armstrong. So they have that going for them, which is nice.
Not sure if serious, but I feel compelled to point out that Neil Armstrong went to Purdue.
Born in Ohio which means they take credit if you're famous and don't have UM ties.
Wapokoneta’s finest!
Cincinnati was another Ohio city that definitely "laid claim" to Armstrong. Armstrong settled down in Cinci following the Apollo mission. He taught Aerospace Engineering classes at UC for ~ 10 years.
(that would be pretty cool to have had Armstrong for a University professor!)
Can confirm they absolutely claim Armstrong. I live in Spencerville, a couple small farm towns away from Wapakoneta. My oldest just marched with her high school in the 50th anniversary parade. That day they unveiled two new Armstrong statues. Actually was a cool event.
Just a wee lad in Petrograd...
I call BS. You were 16 years old and attending KGB Polytechnic in Moscow.
It was my ninth summer and I remember it was a Sunday, we had gone camping that weekend, exploring the sinkholes in the Alpena area. Anyway, we climbed up out of the mosquito infested hell when either my uncle or father said, turn on the radio, it's about time for them to land on the moon. So there we were, the northern boondocks of Michigan, fending off mosquitoes which would later be known as space shuttles, listening to the Eagle being landed.
Ahhh. Alpena. What besides mosquitoes, boondocks, and sinkholes can you recall from my birth town?
I was at a Boy Scout National Jamboree in Idaho. Each troop had a telephone pole with a single electric plug. Someone plugged a TV in and we stood around it, watching the landing.
I was t minus 13 years from being born
Now we have "Space Force."
And we also have a Space Lord. I remember that Monster Magnet song from the 90s, space lord mother fucker!
I was watching it on tv, sitting between Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
I was at a church camp out for boys up in Empire, Mi and I also was around 10 or 11 years old at the time. We heard about it but we were too busy snaring critters, catching little salamanders, making our own meals, having fires & tying knots. Good times.
I was however very ingrained in the whole M culture by that time thanks to family. Go Blue - from here to the moon & back.
Not alive.
If anyone here hasn't done it yet, go to Cape Canaveral and walk along the length of the Saturn V rocket they have laying down there. It's taken apart by stage, and it is truly mind-blowing. Imagine sitting in the tiny capsule on top of that monster and aiming toward the moon. The combination of guts and intellect these few people had that willingly said "yes" to that seems unattainable these days.
you can say that again!
Johnson Space Center (the mission control) in Clear Lake, near Houston also has one. It's truly impressive what they built.
Not alive.
If anyone here hasn't done it yet, go to Cape Canaveral and walk along the length of the Saturn V rocket they have laying down there. It's taken apart by stage, and it is truly mind-blowing. Imagine sitting in the tiny capsule on top of that monster and aiming toward the moon. The combination of guts and intellect these few people had that willingly said "yes" to that seems unattainable these days.