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Posted by Andy Summers (Member # 3207) on 07-20-2005, 10:39 AM:

Today is a momentum in the historical first moon landing, July 20th 1969 Neil A. Armstrong, Commander;
Edwin E. Aldrin, Lunar Module Pilot; Michael Collins, Command Module Pilot
36 years ago, though I was only 2 years old at that time, and it’s kind of affected me and the excitement of it all those mighty Saturn V rockets lunching of pad 39A.

On a journey of exploration and science too, the adventure of a life time and for each crewmen there only be going there once and never again.

Making the best of each mission a successful one and gathering vital data, that will studied later back on earth, the mysteries surround are own orbiting satellite that we call the moon, as man as gazed since the dawn of existence.

So with other wondrous parts in the vast unknown universe, and dozens of interstellar probes like Pioneer and Voyage series exploring the great mysteries and someday man will travel with newer types of rocket propulsion, like Iron power or maybe something totally new that as eluded man, light-speed….

Man must explore…

Magnificent desolation…..

Buzz Aldrin jr-Apollo 11

http://www.fairmile.fsbusiness.co.uk/lmdetails.htm

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Li...vonbraun_4.html

http://www.astronomy.org/programs/moon.html

Posted by Bruce McGee (Member # 131) on 07-20-2005, 04:48 PM:

Yeah. I was watching all of the moon landings on our then-new 1969 model Motorola color TV. Has it really been 36 years? Sheesh!

Posted by Aaron Mehocic (Member # 15) on 07-20-2005, 04:53 PM:

Can anybody give an update as to whats going on with the manned mission to Mars or perhaps another return to the moon? I know Mark Gulbrandsen is our resident scholar here on NASA issues.

Posted by Andy Summers (Member # 3207) on 07-20-2005, 05:29 PM:

Hear you go guys this I have found at NASA.com there still doing tests, I like that word testing…

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html

I don’t think will see a manned landing on mars for a long time, the way that man went to the moon before committing himself for a lunar landing very risky.

So who’ “Mark Gulbrandsen” is he a projectionist as well, and like me I to look at the night sky and wonder as I look though the reflector telescope, mars will be close to the earth in August 2005, and it better be clear sky’s all around or I’ll scream….

So hear is a little NASA information

Hay Bruce, how long have you been interested in this, as for me since birth, its close to the Apollo 1 accident January 27th 1967 and I was born 21st February 1967, there is no link with the dates but strange that I like the space program….

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo1info.html

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 07-20-2005, 06:09 PM:

NASA can't even get anything off the ground, so you won't be seeing anything for a long time. It's pretty embarrassing

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 07-20-2005, 07:09 PM:

There's not really any need to go to the moon again. Been there, done that.

I remember that 1969 night like it was yesterday. My family was getting ready to leave on vacation and I was glued to our 12" b&w kitchen TV set, watching the moon landing and not helping carry luggage out.

Posted by Mike Spaeth (Member # 524) on 07-20-2005, 11:31 PM:

You could always buy into one of the conspiracy theories that say that the lunar landing was a setup ...

[Roll Eyes]

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/moon.htm

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 07-21-2005, 12:57 AM:

Actually, the moon will make a great base for routinely jumping to the rest of the solar system, since it will eventually provide both the raw materials for ship construction and fueling, and a much less deep gravity well to climb out of. We will go there again some day. We have to, assuming we want to see the rest of our system up close and personal.

Definitely remember that summer day well. We listened to the live broadcast on the car radio that afternoon, and of course I was glued to the TV (a 27" B&W Packard Bell console) as soon as we got home.

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 07-21-2005, 12:20 PM:

The week of the first manned landing on the moon, I was showing a mag-striped 35mm print of "2001 - A Space Odyssey" to packed lots at the Grandview Drive-In in Angola, NY. We played it in stereo, mixed down to two channels for in-car listening.

Posted by Richard Fowler (Member # 893) on 07-21-2005, 12:33 PM:

I was in Edmonton Canada - Klondike Days Festival - as a stage electrician for a musical revue. The day of the moon landing the average daily festival crowds of 30,000 dropped to zero; we huddled around a travel worn t.v. in the lead performer's dressing room trailer for the "event". [Cool]

[ 07-21-2005, 01:36 PM: Message edited by: Richard Fowler ]

Posted by Jeremy Fuentes (Member # 2135) on 07-21-2005, 12:45 PM:

No way...

We landed on the moon!!!

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 07-21-2005, 01:09 PM:

I saw yesterday in The Star or some other grocery-lane tabloid that the moon is about to explode! Now that would be some great publicity for Chicken Little.

Posted by Andy Summers (Member # 3207) on 07-21-2005, 01:24 PM:

No, no, no you data is incorrect, I’ve read that same paper they say a small asteroid is going to hit the moon at an angle, thus sending it into the Bournemouth Sheridan IMAX cinema knocking total off the map, the waste of time cinema….

Posted by Andrew McCrea (Member # 674) on 07-21-2005, 07:57 PM:

"36 years ago today man landed upon the moon"...

18 years ago today (the 20th), Andrew McCrea was born, and is now legal in his province! [Wink]

Posted by Andy Summers (Member # 3207) on 07-21-2005, 08:02 PM:

Andrew

Congratulations enjoy drinking if you like that…

And other things that surrounds us in this civilisation.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 07-21-2005, 08:16 PM:

Post deleted by poster.

(There, that should make all happy)

[ 07-22-2005, 11:25 PM: Message edited by: Phil Hill ]

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-21-2005, 09:25 PM:

Fortunately for him, that puts him in the "too old" category for you. [Razz]

(Sorry, couldn't resist. You shouldn't provide the easy setups!)

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 07-25-2005, 12:17 PM:

I am hardly a NASA expert by any means but I say screw Mars, there's nothing there but dust and rocks anyway and anything we want fomr there can be returned by remote control landers.... Clearly we really don't need to visit Mars.

What does make me nervous though is the present fuel sensor problem with the shuttle and they're still going to let it go for tommrrows launch.... against launch policy! And they still don't know exactly why that sensor failed. The real bad thing would be if the turbo pumps for some reason don't shut down on time and end up just sucking in gas thats not liquified...... the blades in what ever pump intakes straight gas pumps will instantly desintegrate as the rotational speed is over 35,000 rpm and the liquid gas is necessart to cool the pump(s).

Or if the sensor malfunctions in the opposite direction and shuts the engines down too early then an abort to landing someplace in Africa may have to take place for the first time and thats another un-tried very dangerous manuver. This early shut down has happened twice before but just a tad but shy of the desired orbitil speed so no abort was necessary and the shuttle just stayed in a very slightly lower orbit.

Clearly its time for a crash program to replace these ancient shuttles!!

Mark