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Apollo 8: 40 Years Ago This Week...

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Dain Arns

Senior Member
Launch...

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Christmas Message...

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40th Anniversary Celebration...

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Being an NASA nut, I was fully aware of this and thinking about it. Thanks for the post! :wavey:
 
Man,
Seems like only yesterday that I was watching the Saturn V....(although I was too young to remember Apollo 8)

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Great post Dain, thanks for that! Apollo was so big, in so many ways that I think 40 years later it's still impossible to fully comprehend what was accomplished and how it changed us.
 
I am one of those fortune souls who saw an Apollo liftoff, Apollo 16, the next to last moon mission. To anyone that has never heard the sound of a Saturn Rocket's liftoff, well only Hell would perhaps have something like it!

Thanks Dain, the only time I ever skipped school was in the 8th grade when Alan Shepard went up on Freedom 7 in May 1961. After that, the school would allow us to watch launches. :icon_lol:

I had two great aunts and one great uncle who worked for NASA in Newport News and Houston. I still have the many books on the Mercury Project my Aunt Bernice gave me. I have always been an avid follower of the space programs. I still follow them little Mars Rovers, haven't they been amazing? The two Voyager programs have been two of the greatest leaps of astronomy in mankind's history!

Caz
 
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