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McLovin

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With the terrible events going on in Gaza and the Ukraine I thought it would be good to note the good things we can achieve, and really, they don't get much better than strapping three blokes to a rocket and sending them from Earth to another celestial body. Even more amazing is that these guys did it with less computing power than is in your digital wristwatch. It was all manual calculations and hold on to the seat of your pants. What a great achievement.

Oh and I've always been a bit of a space nerd.


Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/113347...nd-watch-the-restored-eva-here/#ixzz384yJXpgJ

What an eerie sight this would have been for Armstrong and Aldrin...



 
Agree McLovin. I'm glad I was alive to witness the most historic event for centuries.

There was a program on tv a while ago that showed women knitting the memory cores of the Apollo guidance computer, and also the fact that the mission was saved by a ball point pen after one of the switches in the lunar module broke.

All great stuff. Happy anniversary to NASA, and all those Apollo technicians and astronauts, and their families.
 
Yes, one of the most important achievements of mankind.
Robert Goddard also deserves to be remembered for his part dreaming the dream and developing the rocket. I vaguely remember the last lunar landing as a 7 year old. it wowed me so much that I have had a love of space ever since.

Even the Cold War had a good side.
 

Yes, I am a space nerd also, Amazing stuff. I hope in my life time I will see man land on mars.

Carl Sagan summed it up pretty good in his pale blue dot series.

 
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Value Collector said:
Yes, I am a space nerd also, Amazing stuff. I hope in my life time I will see man land on mars.

Carl Sagan summed it up pretty good in his pale blue dot series.

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That Pale Blue Dot speech is one of my favourite. Really puts things in perspective. Such a shame Carl Sagan died.

The pale blue dot...

 
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When Michael Collins took this picture, he was the only human in the universe not in the picture.


 
Did this ever even happen? Haha. Alot of conspiracies. I like space to but you guys probably know more on the matter.
 
darkhorse70 said:
Did this ever even happen? Haha. Alot of conspiracies. I like space to but you guys probably know more on the matter.
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Don't ask Buzz Aldrin that to his face, at least now the way this guy did.

 
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Those Yankee conspiracy theorists, sheesh! Great to see Buzz giving the idiot a well rounded reply.

Back in '69 and growing up in a remote/regional area, the only TV was the ABC.

My memory of the lunar landing is also of being sent home from 4th class to watch it on TV (all in glorious B&W) and feeling so disappointed as I walked out of the school grounds because, as an avid and self-absorbed Sci-Fi reader, I believed we already had colonised the Moon along with Venus and Mars and we're starting to make our way to the bigger planets and beyond.

Aspirations of being a space traveller firmly dashed!

Yep, that was a real rude awakening that shattered my knee-high-to-a-grasshopper view of the world. That single one moment, that single one realisation changed me forever on a very deep personal and profound level. Ahh, to be so naïve again...
 
darkhorse70 said:
Did this ever even happen? Haha. Alot of conspiracies. I like space to but you guys probably know more on the matter.
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Yes, they did go to the moon, and its kinda sad that a lot of people these days believe the conspiracy theories, especially because they can all be proven false when you understand how things work.

 
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Not the original moon landing, But still one of my favourite moon videos, the Hammer and feather test.

 
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Value Collector said:
Not the original moon landing, But still one of my favourite moon videos, the Hammer and feather test.

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Huh, it was all done in a vacuum chamber.

The golf game on the moon was my favourite
 
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That single one moment, that single one realisation changed me forever on a very deep personal and profound level.
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Urban legend has it that one of the US network channels that was showing repeats of The Lucy Show (yes, even then) was inundated with complaints when the show was replaced by a live broadcast of the moon landing.
 
Nothing to do with the Moon, but here's Venus transiting the Sun. A great picture.

 
Back to the moon landing.

Six reasons Neil Armstrong was a Bad Ass.

 
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I'm waiting for a flight...

How's this.

I have no idea what they'll lauch Orion with but if it's a Saturn V I will be there.
 
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my dad is saying if they did go to the moon, why haven't they been back? Why hasn't Russia gone yet again?
 
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