• Welcome to the new COTI server. We've moved the Citizens to a new server. Please let us know in the COTI Website issue forum if you find any problems.
  • We, the systems administration staff, apologize for this unexpected outage of the boards. We have resolved the root cause of the problem and there should be no further disruptions.

50 years since Apollo XI

McPerth

McPerth

SOC-14 5K
Admin Award
Administrator
Moderator
Peer of the Realm
50 years ago today, the Apollo XI left Earth in his trip to Moon . A great feat for Solomani race, even if it was stopped shortly latter.

I was too young to remeber it, but I tought it was worth a mention here as homage.
 
Last edited:
But in the end, they failed, and the Solomani went to stars
 
I watched Neil Armstrong take his first steps on the Moon. I doubt that I will see that occur for Mars, and I am not even sure if I will see men return to the Moon.
 
I'm too young to remember that one small step. I do remember my Mom insisting us kids watch a later Moon launch and mission on TV - even pulling us away from playing in the yard to do it. Later I realized that was the last Apollo landing.
 
Missed Apollo. I did get to stay home from school to watch the first shuttle launch. Except then they scrubbed the launch until another day, I tried to make the argument that I should get to stay home that day too, but sadly no luck.

I would love to see the next program start and actually get funded and actually proceed. A few presidents now have announced something, dropped the mike & walked away and nothing has happened. Apparently such a program needs a few dedicated 'wranglers' to make happen, among many other moving parts.
 
I was six years old at the time of Apollo 11. Probably too young to fully appreciate it. Growing up on a diet of Doctor Who and Lost in Space, I vaguely recall feeling disappointed when Armstrong & Aldrin entirely failed to encounter any moon monsters.
 
jcrocker said:
Missed Apollo. I did get to stay home from school to watch the first shuttle launch. Except then they scrubbed the launch until another day, I tried to make the argument that I should get to stay home that day too, but sadly no luck.

I would love to see the next program start and actually get funded and actually proceed. A few presidents now have announced something, dropped the mike & walked away and nothing has happened. Apparently such a program needs a few dedicated 'wranglers' to make happen, among many other moving parts.
Click to expand...
I wonder if SpaceX might simply just do it themselves, considering Musk's obsession with developing transports to Mars and space industry.
 
I was also six. I don't remember a lot, but it was such a big thing that parts of it are solidly in my memory. We were out camping at the time. We came home that day to watch the landing and moon walk (on black and white TV, we didn't have a color TV yet). We got to stay up late to watch the moon walk. The next day we went back to the campground...

I'm not sure there will ever be another event to compare.

Frank
 
McPerth said:
50 years ago today, the Apollo XI left Earth in his trip to Moon . A great feat for Solomani race, even if it was stopped shortly latter.

I was too young to remeber it, but I tought it was worth a mention here as homage.
Click to expand...

My mother tells me I was pugelizing her ovaries while my folks watched watched it on the tele.
 
I was 8, and remember being woke up late at night to watch our tiny black and white tv and being completely and totally awed by the fact that actual human beings were on the Moon!

As it was summer, we were not in school. But on subsequent missions, school was, well not cancelled. But we spent all day watching the mission on TV, instead of doing actual work.

Later, my 6th grade teacher was good friends with our local congressman, who sent me all sort of official NASA histories and documents about the American Space Program. Wish I still had them.
 
I found a Quote of the Day book which had some Apollo-related entries. President Kennedy's speeches rallying public opinion are still inspiring, all these years later.

"We choose to go to the Moon and do the other things too, not because they are easy but because they are hard. "
 
I saw it when I was in the Navy, aboard ship. Don't think we had an evening movie the day of the launch. Nor when they landed.
 
jcrocker said:
Missed Apollo. I did get to stay home from school to watch the first shuttle launch. Except then they scrubbed the launch until another day, I tried to make the argument that I should get to stay home that day too, but sadly no luck.

I would love to see the next program start and actually get funded and actually proceed. A few presidents now have announced something, dropped the mike & walked away and nothing has happened. Apparently such a program needs a few dedicated 'wranglers' to make happen, among many other moving parts.
Click to expand...

I read somewhere it took around 100,000 people to pull it off. That includes all of the contractors and sub-contractors, along with the planet wide tracking stations.

And they used slide rules and paper to design it all. Saw a documentary a few days ago where they made an actual size LEM out of wood. Trying different configurations to try and keep the weight down.

One of the Apollo astronauts said you could punch a hole in the lander in certain spots, the hull was that thin.
 
The full quote follows:
BRJN said:
I found a Quote of the Day book which had some Apollo-related entries. President Kennedy's speeches rallying public opinion are still inspiring, all these years later.

"We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things too, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others too." - President John F. Kennedy
Click to expand...
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Baroun Tardis
Scout V Vargr
Replies
0
Views
316
Baroun Tardis
Baroun Tardis
C
General Gashiini - Minor Race
Replies
4
Views
3K
CaptRet
C
M
New Near-Future Earth Setting
Replies
2
Views
2K
mactavish
M
K
[Silhouette/Traveller-SOLOplay] The "Idle Threat" Logs
2
Replies
24
Views
6K
Kilgs
K
D
Travelling in The Fringe - A Near Space interpretation
3 4 5
Replies
93
Views
11K
Diveguy
D
Back
Top