One Small Step for a Man . . .

Discussion in 'The Bench' started by yacster, Jul 20, 2009.

  1. BuickBuddy

    BuickBuddy Registered V8 Offender GK

    I was there. My parents bought a condo in the La Riviera on Wakulla lane in Cocoa Beach in 1968 so we could be there for the launch. I also saw 13, 15 and 16. 13 and 16 fell during April vacation and we flew down there for them. I remember I was more excited getting on the planes. 11 and 15 were in July and we were there anyway for the summer.:TU:

    But my most vivid memory was during 13. Wakulla lane is a side road off A1A that ends at the beach. A1A is a very busy road even back in the 70's. But during the flight of 13 there was almost no one on the roads everyone was glued to their TV's. I remember standing mid-day looking up and down A1A and there were no cars. It was eerie. :puzzled:
     
  2. John Codman

    John Codman Platinum Level Contributor

    I believe that the Saturn V was the only space rocket we ever developed that never had a failure.
    In an earlier post I mentioned that July 20, 1969 was the night I asked my bride to marry me. What I did not say was that we then went to her parents house to tell them. They basically told us that the Moon landing was iminent and we could talk later. We then went to my mother's house with about the same result. We stayed there until after the landing. The Champagne then came out - but I think it was at least as much for my brother's involvement in the lunar lander thrusters as it was for our engagement. :grin:
     
  3. Bad Buick

    Bad Buick Foe Fiddy Five

    41 years today:cool::3gears:
     
  4. Yardley

    Yardley Club Jackass

  5. Junkman

    Junkman Well-Known Member

    On this date in 1976, Viking 1 touched down on Mars. In 1993, Vince Foster was found dead. Someone brought up "conspiracy" at the beginning of this thread? Watch this quick vid of Buzz Aldrin popping a jerkoff in the mouth over conspiracy allegations. :grin:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUFO8AGMwic&feature=related
     
  6. faster

    faster Well-Known Member

    The Agena engine that powered the lunar lander and the space capsules was manufactured by Bell Aerospace in Wheatfield, New York (Niagra Falls). My dad worked there as a technician from 1951 till 1985 in the test cells developing them. They had Von Braun the guy who built the V-1 and V-2 for Germany working there when he was hired.

    The Agena was the only rocket motor you could shut off and restart.

    The Agena engine never had a failure, ever in service in over 30 years until it was retired. As stated in an ealrier post dad has one of the steer motors off the lander. I'll post a pic.

    Mikey
     
  7. 69GSCAL

    69GSCAL Well-Known Member


    I have a guy working for me that's all into that conspiracy BS. His view has an interesting twist in the fact that he does believe we went to the moon, but upon leaving the moon the spaceshuttle was overshadowed by an alien spacecraft 100 times its size.

    He's got all sorts of "evidence" of course to back these claims.

    Aliens living on the dark side of the moon. The US never having returned since. Aliens walking around on earth disguised as humans (he's met one). The guy's a real piece or work. Talks about it like you're the crazy one for not knowing what's common knowledge.
     
  8. Poppaluv

    Poppaluv I CALL WINNERS!!!

    They recently said that he did indeed said "a", but it was lost in the static. I believe I read it in "Smithsonian".:TU:


    :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:

    You guys don't really think we've been there do you?????? They actually filmed it my parents friend's house on the bayou. During the downtime Armstrong was said to have an affinity for shooting at the trout and garfish by the dock.....:laugh:

    I lost my autograph copy of Tibbit's book in the storm. Good read. We nee to get out there again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:rant:
     
  9. britt'sStage 1

    britt'sStage 1 A Lone Wolf In D.C.

    July 20,1969...it was A GREAT DAY indeed,I watched the moon landing and the moon walk...I had just turned 12 Years Old on that day:birthday: To ME,not bad for 41 Years ago. Jay B.Britt,Jr.
     
  10. Dana/Beth Andrews

    Dana/Beth Andrews Huc accedit zambonis!

    thanks for reminder :Dou:

    D:grin:
     
  11. Bad Buick

    Bad Buick Foe Fiddy Five

    46 years.
     
  12. Smokey15

    Smokey15 So old that I use AARP bolts.

    Treed me there.

    I was just out of high school. All three of the local TV channels dedicated the entire day to coverage.
     
  13. Lebowski

    Lebowski Mark it 8, Dude...

    I was getting ready to start my senior year of high school and I still have a copy of the Chicago Sun-Times from that day. The moon landing covered most of the front page but on the bottom it mentioned another big news story from two days earlier involving Ted Kennedy in Chappaquiddick, Mass. Most of the older guys here know what I'm talking about but some of you younger ones may not... :eek2:
     
  14. Lebowski

    Lebowski Mark it 8, Dude...

    I like Pink Floyd too.... :laugh:
     
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  15. SteeveeDee

    SteeveeDee Orange Acres

    I was 17 and like everyone else, glued to the TV. Great times for the US.

    I think it was National Lampoon that published a fake ad for VW that said if Ted had been driving a Bug, Mary Jo would have lived. They caught a lot of flak for that, and some spattered onto VW, as I recall. It's amazing what enough money can buy someone out of.
     
  16. Michael Evans

    Michael Evans a new project

    I seem show with Neal's interview the he even said that is not what he said. Because of the technology at the time, it cut off what he really said.
     
  17. priariecanary

    priariecanary Stacey

    I remember the teacher wheeling in a cart with a black and white TV on it so we could watch the Apollo landings during grade school. Any modern car (and cell phone for that matter) has way more computing power on-board than the Apollo rockets and moon landers did back in the day. Pretty amazing accomplishment.
     
  18. Smokey15

    Smokey15 So old that I use AARP bolts.

    That's how ol' Ted rolled! More than one 'splashdown' in the news then.
     
  19. Bad Buick

    Bad Buick Foe Fiddy Five

    50 years ago today...

     
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  20. Topcat

    Topcat Got TORQUE?

    Do any of you know about Gamma rays in space(you can't get the truth from the internet)........that capsule was basically a "tin can".......no protection at all.

    Just saying......i would have thought that they would have loaded up the cargo bay of the space shuttle and took it for a cruise around the Moon at least once :D

    Peace WildBill
     

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