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Apollo 11 - The 40th Anniversary

Bjoern

Bjoern

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Watch it "live" here:

http://wechoosethemoon.com/

I think one of the beers I'll guzzle down tonight (end of exams for this semester) will be dedicated to NASA for pulling off this remarkable feat of engineering. :ernae:
 
Actually, I sent an e-mail to all of my students for September and to them that if they watched the episode on the History Channel and wrote a one page report as a Summer Project, I would give them one test during the year that they could skip, provided it wasn't a final or a midterm.

I got nine responses...
 
I watched the launch of Apollo 11, their touchdown on the Moon, and their return to Earth back in '69. It was a vision come true, and one I'll never forget. :USA-flag:
 
In between showing the current mission the NASA channel is showing a lot of their Apollo footage from all missions. They will probably keep it up through the 20th.
 
For those here who have been enjoying the "golden oldies"; the British band The Moody Blues produced an album that was inspired by the Apollo 11 mission. It was titled To Our Children's Children's Children.

Someone did a masterfull job of setting the first three songs of that album to some footage from the Apollo missions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAGcVMTX0Ns

-James
 
I was 17 and much distracted by the young lady who would, in the fullness of time, become divorce #1:d
However I did manage to watch most of the coverage and remember a young James Burke and Patrick Moore commentating on the BBC.
 
jhefner said:
For those here who have been enjoying the "golden oldies"; the British band The Moody Blues produced an album that was inspired by the Apollo 11 mission. It was titled To Our Children's Children's Children.

Someone did a masterfull job of setting the first three songs of that album to some footage from the Apollo missions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAGcVMTX0Ns

-James
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I've got that album in vinyl and CD. I love playing thier music goin down the road in the GTO. Takes me back to 1968 when they first hit the radio. I even wore out "In Search of the Lost Chord" on the old record player. That album was their crowing glory IMHO. Too bad they sacked Mike Pinder.
 
And because of delays, Endeavour makes it off the pad as well to take components to the ISS.

Strange that the weather cleared enough to let it happen. A reminder from a higher power that we're dragging our feet a bit?
 
demorier said:
I wonder what the conspiracy theorists will make of it ?? (I'm not one of them).
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I have seen some very compelling pictures to question the landings...

the pictures and Film that were put out by NASA.....

overlays of a few different Missions that took place at various parts of the moon......with the identical rock formations...and when overlayed they match....

makes me wonder........Capricorn One.
 
The moon was marketed as a race... that was the problem. Nobody thought about what would follow.

There are all kinds of 'first's' left to achieve... establish a moon base, mining on the moon, send man to Mars.

Those are just the short range goals. How about making some advances in propulsion?
 
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