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We put a man on the moon but we still can’t get true Dark Mode on my iPhone.!!
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Buzz landing a big one on that dude
Ow you sprained my eyes what with the rolling and all"We can put a man on the moon; but 50 years later, we can't salute the flag we planted there?
yep. bissonet plaza elementary cafeteria for meI wasn't alive for the Moon landing, but I remember where I was with the Challenger... in school watching the launch on one of these... I can still remember the silence in the room after the explosion, it was beyond eerie...
The Moon landing was a scientific feat considering the tech they used to make it happen. The contribution women made to it is also very important IMO, Hidden Figures was an excellent film.
I think I would have loved your mom. Not only was I locked on to all of the space program as a kid, but I could not keep away from the news media during the entire Apollo 13 mission, especially after the explosion. The space program was the greatest 'reality TV' this country has ever seen.I was 12. My mom was a big fan of the space program. Those were HER boys up there! We knew all the astronaut names from the days of Mercury and Gemini. We scraped together the money to buy models of the Apollo capsule, Service Module and LEM. At each step, we walked through the moment with the models on the coffee table.
When Apollo 13 aborted, my mom slept on the couch for three days with the TV on. My Service Module's cut away panel lay open, so we knew exactly where the oxygen tank that blew up was located.
All I remember "where I was then" is the Challenger explosion. Its promise was to engender some new enthusiasm for our space program with the inclusion of the first civilian "astronaut". And then .........
I don't know how I feel now. We went to the moon during a time of great unrest and turmoil in the US, not unlike now. I loved no Smithsonian museum more than going to the Air & Space, love looking up into the sky at night but sort of share some of the sentiments of the dissenters back in the 1960s who wondered why we were doing this when we have so many problems here back on Earth.
I was also vehemently against the New Coke and considered that pure folly. And I was right.
I had that same model, but wasn't quite the space nerd. I was too busy reading about the war against the Barbary piratesI was 12. My mom was a big fan of the space program. Those were HER boys up there! We knew all the astronaut names from the days of Mercury and Gemini. We scraped together the money to buy models of the Apollo capsule, Service Module and LEM. At each step, we walked through the moment with the models on the coffee table.
When Apollo 13 aborted, my mom slept on the couch for three days with the TV on. My Service Module's cut away panel lay open, so we knew exactly where the oxygen tank that blew up was located.
I always wanted the 6 ft. tall model of the Saturn V, made by Revell, but never could afford it.
Yes, all my classmates knew about the moon landing, but when they wanted to know something they turned to the one kid who knew EVERYTHING about the moon landing. Thanks to my mom, that was me . . . the space nerd who was a nerd before being a nerd was cool!
Today is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing
Any memories of those old enough to have watched it live?
Also the 50th anniversary of expressing any kind of tech frustration
“We can put a man on the moon but we can’t (fill in the blank)!”