It was 38 years ago today...........

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"TacAN" wrote:

What still fascinates me about those early years - is the electronics, ie
computers that they used.
In the 1960's saw the first discrete transistors and maybe the very early
intergrated circuits.
By todays standards (or even what was becoming available in the 1980's) the
computer power may have been fairly "primitive". Which makes their
achievements all the more spectacular.

Graham

I watched it on TV at a party set up especially for it -- in Huntsville,
AL, where I worked for Boeing, designing translunar flight trajectories.

I remember the JFK assassination, too. I was working for Douglas, in
Culver City, CA and worked with a Texan, whose thoughts were,
"Manchurian Candidate," where LBJ cradled JFK's mortally wounded head in
his lap.

Orval Fairbairn wrote:
In article ,
"TacAN" wrote:

What still fascinates me about those early years - is the electronics, ie
computers that they used.
In the 1960's saw the first discrete transistors and maybe the very early
intergrated circuits.
By todays standards (or even what was becoming available in the 1980's) the
computer power may have been fairly "primitive". Which makes their
achievements all the more spectacular.

Graham

I watched it on TV at a party set up especially for it -- in Huntsville,
AL, where I worked for Boeing, designing translunar flight trajectories.

I remember the JFK assassination, too. I was working for Douglas, in
Culver City, CA and worked with a Texan, whose thoughts were,
"Manchurian Candidate," where LBJ cradled JFK's mortally wounded head in
his lap.


Interesting imagery ... as a comparison to the actual event where Jackie
went over the back of the limo to retrieve part of JFK's skull and
famous hairdo ... apropos the unknown worker/handler who cradled RFK's
head after Sirhan-x2 did his Dallas on him in LA. And where was the
Woman in the Polka Dotted Dress, anyway?

PS:

When the Moon Landing occurred, I was in Okinawa and we watched the TV
image from the Armed Forces TV but the audio came over a local Japanese
station -- there was a delay of some 15 seconds -- the audio feed being
by shortwave and the TV by Satellite. But it WAS something to see. I
never noticed that camera slip which revealed the propped up backdrop of
the movie set at Area 51 that was later edited out of all existent rerun
tapes.

Clever those Kennedy's.

Cheers from the Grassy Knoll

Dave

"Bruce R" wrote in message
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...moon_walk.html

Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??

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Bruce R



Landing: A controlled mid-air collision with a planet.
Sure do. I was at university and it was mid morning. Everyone stopped to
watch the telecast. Other "great" moments that have stayed in my mind are
the murder of JFK, 11th Sept, Boxing Day tsunami, Cyclone Tracy, and the day
the Queen's representative sacked the elected Australian goverment.

Doug

And thank God that he was sacked - complete with the most incompetent
government this country has ever seen!!!

"Jon Brunker" wrote in message
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And thank God that he was sacked - complete with the most incompetent
government this country has ever seen!!!
I agree, but it was a momentous day. I didn't think it could happen.

And those bitter and ominous words by Gough Whitlam etched into Australian
history ....

Well may we say "God Save The Queen. Because nothing will save the Governor
General"



Graham
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"The Old Bloke" wrote in message
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"Jon Brunker" wrote in message
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And thank God that he was sacked - complete with the most incompetent
government this country has ever seen!!!
I agree, but it was a momentous day. I didn't think it could happen.

TacAN wrote:
And those bitter and ominous words by Gough Whitlam etched into
Australian history ....

Well may we say "God Save The Queen. Because nothing will save the
Governor General"



"...from himself"






Graham
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Cheers

Dave Kearton

"Bruce R" wrote in news:46a13b15$0$16596
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...moon_walk.html

Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??


Busy applying to colleges. Spend much of the
preceding years following all the launches and
spacewalks closely, sending off to NASA for all
the brochures and press releases. Living in Houston
at the time will do that to you, what with all the
hoopla over "Space City" and the "Astrodome" and
all that............

I was 4 or 5 and I was dumbfounded to learn that space flight wasn't like it
was in the cartoons... I kept asking about the guns they carried, and if
the had rockets to defend themselves against the bad men in outerspace.
The place was my parents house at Driglington in Yorkshire, England.

Not long after that we moved to America and I remember crying my eyes out
that two of my best friends woudn't be joining us... My Dad's car (a Ford
Anglia) and my super sized teddy bear, (the damned thing would have needed
an extra seat on the plane) and the airline was BOAC.

Andrew

"Bruce R" wrote in message
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Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??

--

Bruce R



Landing: A controlled mid-air collision with a planet.

I was a very bleary eyed 9 year old who's mom was nice enough to let him
stay up late and see it live on tv.......

"Bruce R" wrote in message
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...moon_walk.html

Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon??

--

Bruce R



Landing: A controlled mid-air collision with a planet.