OSH Go Arounds

I remember it well. I was 7 and that was the latest I had ever stayed up
when not getting home from a trip. I watched every moment of the EVA and
never even started nodding off. In fact I'd bet Armstrong was asleep after
the walk before I was. I thought it was the coolest thing ever to happen.

Looking back... I was right.

Gig



"Montblack" wrote in message
...
("RST Engineering" wrote)
I guess I was 25 when Apollo 11 landed...I remember that the flying club
had scheduled a lunch on Catalina Island that day and I knew I had to be
home by early afternoon to hear the touchdown...as I vaguely recall, they
touched down around 5 pm PDT. Did I get that right?


http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary...llo11info.html

Launched: 16 July 1969 UT 13:32:00 (09:32:00 a.m. EDT)

Landed on Moon: 20 July 1969 UT 20:17:40 (04:17:40 p.m. EDT)

Returned to Earth: 24 July 1969 UT 16:50:35 (12:50:35 p.m. EDT)

(from the website)
The Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) began at 10:39:33 p.m. EDT on
July 20, 1969. Astronaut Neil Armstrong emerged from the spacecraft first.
While descending, he released the Modularized Equipment Stowage Assembly
on the Lunar Module's descent stage. A camera on this module provided live
television coverage of man's first step on the Moon. On this, their one
and only EVA, the astronauts had a great deal to do in a short time.
During this first visit to the Moon, the astronauts remained within about
100 meters of the lunar module, collected about 47 pounds of samples, and
deployed four experiments. After spending approximately 2 hours and 31
minutes on the surface, the astronauts ended the EVA at 1:11:13 a.m. EDT
on July 21.


Much like TV's coverage of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in
Chicago the summer before - you try to stay up all night, but still have
your pillow handy just in case. Age 8 in 1968. Age 9 in 1969. Good times.
Good times :-)


Montblack

I remember it well. I was 7 and that was the latest I had ever stayed up
when not getting home from a trip. I watched every moment of the EVA and
never even started nodding off. In fact I'd bet Armstrong was asleep after
the walk before I was. I thought it was the coolest thing ever to happen.

Looking back... I was right.

Amen, brother.

We can only hope that the current push for Mars can keep momentum. I sense
that it's already slipping into the "whatever" category amongst the
political class.

I'm afraid real space exploration will have to await other people with more
balls than we Americans have left.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"