35th anniversay of 1st men on the moon

[bobbieinok]

our son was born June 10, 1969.....we taped the hours-long broadcast....baby noises on the tape to show him 'you were there'

my mom quit smoking cold.....she said if the astronauts could discipline themselves to do this, she could discipline herself to stop smoking.....also good for 1st grandchild......mom has always been intensely interested in space and the space program....she's watched every lift-off, long after most of the rest of the world lost interest

[DenverDem]

1. I was at the National Boy Scout Jamboree in Cour d'Alene, Idaho.

Watched on a big projection screen, there.

[Eagle_Eye]

14. Twelve men walked on the moon

Eleven of them were Boy Scouts, two of them Eagle Scouts. If Apollo 13 had made the trip, three of them would have been Eagle Scouts. Boy Scouts are good for boys. Boy Scouts are good for America.

[Bandit]

19. If only they weren't such homophobes...

:shrug:

[jmowreader]

15. That was a neat technology, big screen television in the late 1960s

They built a movie camera that focused its lens on a very bright cathode ray tube. The film speed was 30 frames/second--the same rate as black & white television. After the film was exposed it went through a developer that worked in seven seconds, then a very potent fixer that cleared the film in four seconds. They rinsed the chemicals off the surface of the film, then projected it. The contrast was kinda low, but the delay between receiving the image and projecting it was less than 20 seconds.

They did this for things like Muhammad Ali's fight in Africa. It was expensive to do so they usually charged admission to the events and held them in large venues--they showed Ali's fight in the Spokane Coliseum, the largest house in town at the time.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

2. I was at home watching the broadcast

with my grandmother. Mom and Dad were at a family party, one of my uncles and my cousin were leaving the next day for Ireland. My dad called right after Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon and told me never to forget that night.

I asked Grandma after I got off the phone with Dad what she thought of it all and she said she never thought she'd live to see a human being walk on the face of the moon.

She reminded me that she remembered when Lindbergh landed in Paris and what a wonder her and my grandfather thought that was, but this occasion topped that day by far.

God, I can't believe it's been 35 years. Seems like yesterday..

[bobbieinok]

3. one of my mom's uncles hung out at the garage/bike shop

whatever where Lindbergh used to stop by....she remembered her uncle saying later 'that kid, that kid I used to see --- he FLEW to Paris' (mom was born in 1913)

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

7. Grandma was born in 1899, but she always claimed it was 1900.

She had funny thing about her age, I guess. Not that it mattered to me, I loved her dearly and after she died my mother gave me her wedding ring. When my husband and I got engaged, we used the diamonds from her ring for my engagement ring. You would have to cut off my left hand to get that ring from me.

My dad remembered listening to the radio reports when Lindy landed in Paris. He was ten and when he called 35 years ago tonight, that is why he told me never to forget July 20, 1969.

[Forkboy]

4. As my sister would say

"If we can a man to the moon how come we can't send all of them?"

[redqueen]

18. hehehe

:kick:

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

5. On vacation in Hot Springs Arkansas, of all places...

...and was called in, at night, from the hotel pool, to watch the landing. Remember it well.


I was just a kid back then.

[libhill]

6. It was quite a show

and that's about all it was- the whole thing was faked, smoke and mirrors. How the hell could you pick up a television signal from the moon in '69, when yu couldn't even get a signal from another city 200 miles away?

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

8. Haven't you ever heard of satellite transmission?

[WoodrowFan]

9. amazing

your ignorance of science is astounding. Guess that says a lot about Texas schools doesn't it.

http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/NOT_faked/

http://www.braeunig.us/space/hoax.htm

bye bye.

[libhill]

10. What's amazing

is your faith in the Government - can you say "Black Ops"? Oh, well, if you want to believe the bull they feed you, be my guest. And Oswald really shot Kennedy, and there really were wmd's in Iraq.

[DrWeird]

11. There was no Kennedy.

He was an android constructed by the freemasons as an excuse to fake a moon landing.

[ronnykmarshall]

12. I remember that night so well.

We were all over Aunt Pat and Uncle Ronnie's house. My Aunt and Uncle from Arizona were there too. After a watching for a while, my Aunt Darleen and I went out in the back yard and look at the moon. It was such a clear night that night.

I remember her holding my hand and she said "There are two men up there right now."


Oh damn! I forgot, my Aunt Darleen was an andriod too!

[libhill]

13. I knew it -

I just knew it! And no one believes me!

[jmowreader]

16. Line of sight, man, line of sight

Amateur radio people have been screwing around with moonbounce communications for decades. You can use the moon as a communications satellite, sending a signal to the moon and receiving it somewhere else on earth, with way less than 100 watts of power, and if you're transmitting from the moon you can probably do it on 50 watts.

[redqueen]

17. And to think, there should have been women there, too

:(

http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/cobb.htm">http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/cobb.htm

Jerrie Cobb started secret tests for astronaut training. Years later in a U.S. Congressional probe, NASA officials admited they had "no intentions" of allowing women into space. Cobb testified that of the 25 women who applied to the space program in 1960, 13 had been found qualified.

Episode 02-20/21-1994
Women of Achievement and Herstory



http://www.jerrie-cobb.org/

Welcome to the Jerrie Cobb Foundation web site, created, maintained, and supported by friends of Jerrie Cobb.
It is our hope that this web page will help you get to know Jerrie, and learn about her jungle flying and quest for space flight.

[Lisa]

20. cool book -- Stephanie Nolan's "Promised the Moon"

From Publishers Weekly
"In 1959, the doctor who supervised NASA's astronaut selection concluded that women might fare better in space than men. His testing of 25 top female pilots for reactions to isolation, centrifuge, and weightlessness proved him right, and 13 exceptional candidates were identified. Despite countless personal and professional sacrifices, these women joined NASA's clandestine new program – which, after two intensive years, was suddenly, and mysteriously, canceled."

[redqueen]

22. 'mysteriously'... riiiiiight.

Really... is there any mystery here? Seriously?

[Bandit]

21. I remember so well trying to explain to some Vietnamese people

what had happened. They must have thought I was nuts. I didn't have a great grasp of their language and kept pointing to the sky and saying the Vietnamese word for moon (Lua) and pointing to myself and saying GI. The next day they all came back and laughed and explained they now understood what I was trying to tell them. It was a major even of my life.