Can't believe we don't already have a thread.
This was a good read. What we saw. I hope to do the entire podcast series at some point.
Apollo 11 Thread (50 year anniversary)
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BackInTex
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Apollo 11 Thread (50 year anniversary)
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
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Re: Apollo 11 Thread (50 year anniversary)
I was a senior to be,, sitting in our Everett apartment with my mom. Can't remember what kind of tv. We weren't rich sorts. But, resolution didn't matter...
Well, then
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BackInTex
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Re: Apollo 11 Thread (50 year anniversary)
We were well in the middle of the middle class. We had a console color t.v. probably a Zenith. Of course all the shots on the moon were b&w, but there was plenty of color from the space center and Cape Canaveral. I only remember watching the the first steps. I'm sure I saw more of the mission but hell, it was like 50 years ago.Beebs52 wrote:I was a senior to be,, sitting in our Everett apartment with my mom. Can't remember what kind of tv. We weren't rich sorts. But, resolution didn't matter...
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
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Re: Apollo 11 Thread (50 year anniversary)
I remember watching the first steps, but, as I was such a young'un, (8years) that's about all I remember. It was all black and white, at least what I remember.
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Re: Apollo 11 Thread (50 year anniversary)
Damn kids!tlynn78 wrote:I remember watching the first steps, but, as I was such a young'un, (8years) that's about all I remember. It was all black and white, at least what I remember.
I saw it in B&W too because I was at our house at Lake Tahoe and that's the only TV we had.
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Re: Apollo 11 Thread (50 year anniversary)
The entire world saw it it b&w. No color transmission from the moon on Apollo 11.Bob Juch wrote:Damn kids!tlynn78 wrote:I remember watching the first steps, but, as I was such a young'un, (8years) that's about all I remember. It was all black and white, at least what I remember.
I saw it in B&W too because I was at our house at Lake Tahoe and that's the only TV we had.
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
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Re: Apollo 11 Thread (50 year anniversary)
Whappersnipper!flockofseagulls104 wrote:My 13th birthday
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Re: Apollo 11 Thread (50 year anniversary)
The broadcast was in color and the Earth scenes, e.g. Mission Control, were in color.BackInTex wrote:The entire world saw it it b&w. No color transmission from the moon on Apollo 11.Bob Juch wrote:Damn kids!tlynn78 wrote:I remember watching the first steps, but, as I was such a young'un, (8years) that's about all I remember. It was all black and white, at least what I remember.
I saw it in B&W too because I was at our house at Lake Tahoe and that's the only TV we had.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to drive in New Jersey.
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Re: Apollo 11 Thread (50 year anniversary)
The first steps were not, what T-girl said she remembered in b&w.Bob Juch wrote:The broadcast was in color and the Earth scenes, e.g. Mission Control, were in color.BackInTex wrote:The entire world saw it it b&w. No color transmission from the moon on Apollo 11.Bob Juch wrote: Damn kids!
I saw it in B&W too because I was at our house at Lake Tahoe and that's the only TV we had.
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
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I'm watching 8 Days: To The Moon And Back on PBS. Getting the same chills (probably more) than I got 50 years ago. I understand more now what an achievement it.
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
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Didn't know or remember that Nixon was on the Hornet to greet them when they arrived. At least it looked like him.
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
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What in the hell are you guys talking about? There hasn't been a man on the moon in my lifetime....
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There's a "re-enactment" on YouTube - someone put together audio and video from historical archives to allow people to "watch" the mission in realtime.
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Time to break out my View Master reels of the moon landing.
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Re: Apollo 11 Thread (50 year anniversary)
BackInTex wrote:The entire world saw it it b&w. No color transmission from the moon on Apollo 11.Bob Juch wrote:Damn kids!tlynn78 wrote:I remember watching the first steps, but, as I was such a young'un, (8years) that's about all I remember. It was all black and white, at least what I remember.
I saw it in B&W too because I was at our house at Lake Tahoe and that's the only TV we had.
Sorry - I meant the earth-side portions, I don't have a specific memory of seeing that in color. We probably had a b&w tv at that time, as it was shortly after my dad's retirement from the AF, and we were in transitional housing.
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I was two months shy of my second birthday.
If I saw any of it, I don't remember.
Learning about it over the years...still amazed we did it in the days of slide rules and with a computer with less power than the smart watch I'm wearing. And today, we've actually lost the knowledge to build the Saturn V engine- we can't do it anymore.
And how close it came to failure.
A loose valve before launch...the 1202/1201 alarms...them not fully venting the docking tunnel so the LM went long on its landing site causing them to use almost all their fuel to find a safe spot to land...Buzz breaking off the breaker to set the ascent engine to fire (they tripped it again with a felt tip pen)...hell, Snoopy coming within seconds of crashing on the moon during Apollo 10 which would have set the whole program back again.
It was a flight fraught with danger...it still is.
If I saw any of it, I don't remember.
Learning about it over the years...still amazed we did it in the days of slide rules and with a computer with less power than the smart watch I'm wearing. And today, we've actually lost the knowledge to build the Saturn V engine- we can't do it anymore.
And how close it came to failure.
A loose valve before launch...the 1202/1201 alarms...them not fully venting the docking tunnel so the LM went long on its landing site causing them to use almost all their fuel to find a safe spot to land...Buzz breaking off the breaker to set the ascent engine to fire (they tripped it again with a felt tip pen)...hell, Snoopy coming within seconds of crashing on the moon during Apollo 10 which would have set the whole program back again.
It was a flight fraught with danger...it still is.
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