Apollo 11 - The 40th Anniversary

[crashaz]

Depends upon how vast your imagination is :mixedsmi:

Exactly P!

BTW... for the conspiracy theorists... LCROSS/NASA says take that!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19514_3-10289551-239.html?tag=mncol

 

[Panther_99FS]

http://www.hasselblad.com/about-hasselblad/hasselblad-in-space/space-cameras.aspx :mixedsmi:

 

[Bjoern]

Those are just the short range goals. How about making some advances in propulsion?

Ion drives are already in development. All we need now is a FTL drive. :d

Depends upon how vast your imagination is :mixedsmi:

True.

 

[kilo delta]

Ion drives are already in development. All we need now is a FTL drive. :d

Pftttt....sure I've got a pair of SSD drives!

 

[Wing_Z]

I've had this running "live" ever since Bjoern posted the link.
Half an hour or so ago:
"Houston...Tranquility Base...the Eagle has landed!"
Even typing this I get choked up.
It was an astonishing feat of do-or-die, so many things that just had to work right - first time.
Those guys - all of them - had the Right Stuff.

Indeed a Giant Leap for Mankind.

 

[Roger]

I've had this running "live" ever since Bjoern posted the link.
Half an hour or so ago:
"Houston...Tranquility Base...the Eagle has landed!"
Even typing this I get choked up.
It was an astonishing feat of do-or-die, so many things that just had to work right - first time.
Those guys - all of them - had the Right Stuff.

Indeed a Giant Leap for Mankind.

Me too. Great stuff; momentous stuff...I welled up a little

 

[Snuffy]

Moonshot

Tonight on the history channel ...

http://www.history.com/shows.do?episodeId=464966&action=detail

 

[Lazerbrainz2k3]

Boeing is the major sponsor behind "Moonshot", they were advertising it with their news network on-site quite a bit today. Which is fitting since in those 40 years they've absorbed the other major partners in building the Apollo-Saturn, except for Grumman.

Should be quite a show!

 

[PRB]

I started watching it. I didn't realize it was going to be a "dramatization.” The introduction narrator said “most of this if fact”, and some “artistic license” was taken, and we “filled in the gaps” with what “might have happened.” I’m guessing the UFO part will be somewhere in the “gap-filling, artistic-license taking dramatization of what might have happened” part… hehe.

 

[Dexdoggy]

An awesome moment that will stand forever in time! I remember sitting cross-legged in our school assembly hall (I was in 2nd class, only 7 years old) and watching on the TV live as it happened (12:56pm for Sydney)! I was an absolute nut for this stuff; I even wrote a while later to NASA and they kindly sent a couple of autographs and some Apollo 17 / Skylab Photos (actual prints!) all those years ago to the kid way down in Australia! Those photos still take pride of place on my wall at home today!
Thanks USA and NASA for having the vision to do something like this; you put a huge smile on this kid's face!