https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/nasa-od...index.html

I've never been a moon landing denier or anything.  But reading about the difficulty of making a landing 50 years later with all our technology does make me kinda wonder how the hell we pulled that shit off back then.  And shit, I watched it live on TV, or so I thought.

(02-22-2024, 05:46 PM)Replying to Walnut River

Concur , me too

There are mirrors on the moon that anyone can bounce a laser off of purportedly placed there by Apollo missions. Maybe they were placed by unmanned craft in reality, but they are there.

watching now

USA had balls back in the day..

(02-22-2024, 05:37 PM)Replying to JamanDawg

Very cool. Thanks, JamanDawg.

(02-22-2024, 06:24 PM)Replying to McDonoughDawg

Witnessed Apollo 11 blast off from a drive in movie theater on Hwy 1 about a mile or so directly in front of the launch pad. You will not believe how hard the ground shook at take off. 3 brave men were strapped into that bird. Can't imagine how hard that rocket shook and vibrated. Armstrong , Collins and Aldrin had big brass balls to do what they did that for those 8 days. 

Big damn deal for 10 year old Zolo. Very grateful for my BIL, Bud,  for waking me up at midnight and taking that 8 hour drive south on Highway 1 to see that. Bud was a good soul and made damn sure that if something big was happening and it was in driving distance we would go see it. Bud took me to my 1st UGA game that same year. BTW, F cancer.

We didn’t land on the moon in ‘69..Stanley Kubrick filmed the landing at Pinewood Studios in London. It was all Cold War propaganda..did we launch a rocket, yes. Did it release a lunar module that landed on the moon, uh no.

(02-22-2024, 07:13 PM)Replying to Zolotisty

Quote:Witnessed Apollo 11 blast off from a drive in movie theater on Hwy 1 about a mile or so directly in front of the launch pad. You will not believe how hard the ground shook at take off. 3 brave men were strapped into that bird. Can't imagine how hard that rocket shook and vibrated. Armstrong , Collins and Aldrin had big brass balls to do what they did that for those 8 days. 

Big damn deal for 10 year old Zolo. Very grateful for my BIL, Bud,  for waking me up at midnight and taking that 8 hour drive south on Highway 1 to see that. Bud was a good soul and made damn sure that if something big was happening and it was in driving distance we would go see it. Bud took me to my 1st UGA game that same year. BTW, F cancer.

Those guys were my idols as a Buzztot (I was 7 in '69). Lost days-worth of sleep during missions when TV coverage was still almost round-the-clock. Had plastic models as well as every paper/cardboard "Tab A in Slot B" kit offered up by the marketing squirrels in Battle Creek.

My folks apparently recognized how intent I was to watch everything related to our space program on our 19" B/W even earlier on. I was surprised the day/evening BEFORE my 5th birthday in January '67 that I was getting all my gifts to open! It wasn't until many years later I realized it was to distract me from the news of the Apollo 1 pad fire.