I hope in my children's lifetime...

[Structo]

OK, lets not get too political it always ends badly.

[ToneMerc]

OK, lets not get too political it always ends badly.

Nah,was just checking for clarifcation as I've done work supporting both the shuttle and Mars missions.

TM

[martin manning]

The passing of Neil Armstrong has got me looking at the history of the Apollo program again. It has long been held up as a triumph of technical achievement and management of the process. See: http://history.nasa.gov/Apollomon/Apollo.html For computer cowboys the story of the Apollo Guidance Computer is fascinating, and there is another very good book "Digital Apollo," by David Mindell that discusses the man-machine interface aspects of flying to the moon. You have to say 'Look what can be done if we put our collective minds to it.' But, remember over those few years we also had social and political unrest over the Vietnam war, the civil rights movement, the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK Jr., the sexual revolution, the resurgence of the feminist movement, and the emergence of drug culture. Makes the present seem pretty dull huh?

[Structo]

There have been some great TV shows on the past few days about the Apollo missions.

Neil Armstrong was quite the aviator pilot and astronaut.
I was 13 when they landed on the moon.
It was probably the crowning moment for humanity when they did that.

Today we almost laugh at the technology they used to get there.

Funny thing is, no other country has ever done it then or since.

Love that stuff, the right stuff that is.

As for the conspiracy folks, there were over 400,000 people involved in getting us to the moon.
For all of them to agree to fraud and cover it up is simply not possible.

[Reeltarded]

I saw it leave with my own eyes.

[Structo]

Cool!

Those were the days, eh?

I gotta go, some kid is on my lawn.

[passfan]

I was six when Neil walked on the moon . I watched every launch from central Florida just west of Orlando halfway to Tampa. The Saturn V was so big you could see white at the tip of the plume on takeoff. I never get tired of seeing them. Shuttles , delta's you name it. We sent a lot of stuff up to have wasted it on a lie.

[cbass]

Man you guys are old