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It was 38 years ago today...........
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. |
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It was 38 years ago today...........
Bruce R wrote
Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon?? Yep! I was a member of one of the two PanAm B-707 crews laying-over at a very small hotel in Prestwick, Scotland. The only TV was in the also very small lobby, lounge and bar. The 80 year old bartender became very upset when we kept him up until the early hours of the morning waiting for Neil to exit the lander. A great time was had by all...except the bartender. Ask me where I was when Powers was shot down....yep, right there at his point of intended landing in Norway. They woke us up, stuffed us into our P-2V, and said to go anywhere but there. We didn't know what had happened until reading the newspaper when we arrived in London a few hours later. Bob Moore |
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It was 38 years ago today...........
Yes I remember it well - we didn't have a local tv transmitter at our town.
In fact we had no local transmitter intil late 1974. We were over 200 miles from the nearest tx. It meant having an external aerial placed about 20 or 30 feet or more high above the house plus a high gain aerial plus (if you could afford the extra) and rf pre-amplifier. The very few people that did have tv sets in our town had b&w (no colour tv then) and relied on the occasional burst of good signal propogation to see (maybe) 5 or 10 minutes of only just watchable picture. One of our local petrol service stations had a tv set, and watch we did - through the most horrible "snowy" picture we just caught a glimpse of that historic moment. :-) Graham ------------------------------------------------- I'm not a complete idiot - parts of me are missing. "Bruce R" wrote in message ... 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. |
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It was 38 years ago today...........
Summer camp. First time and only time in the campgrounds history that
campers were permitted to watch TV. Chaplain (COL) Lonnie J. Potter National Recruiting Coordinator Headquarters (HQ) Division United States Corps of Chaplains "Bruce R" wrote in message ... 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. |
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It was 38 years ago today...........
no as I would of just turned 1
"Bruce R" wrote in message ... 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. |
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It was 38 years ago today...........
Bruce R wrote:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...moon_walk.html Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon?? -- Bruce R Primary school, year 7. For us it was around midday, I got to stay home for the landing and the "one small step..." but then had to go back to school. Must admit, one of the benefits of being middle-aged is that I was watching moments like these - that to my kids are like ancient history. Perversely, I'm much more moved by Apollo 8's Christmas Eve sojourn at the back end of the moon. We were watching the telecast - more concerned with the following morning and my father telling us "pay attention you *******s, this is history happening" -- Cheers Dave Kearton |
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It was 38 years ago today...........
"Bruce R" wrote in message ... 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. Quality assurance (control) rep VT-21 NAS Kingsville Tx. Took the day off and talked to Lesperance on the phone as the stroll began. vr, jm |
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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'm not a complete idiot - parts of me are missing. "Bruce R" wrote in message ... 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. |
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It was 38 years ago today...........
"Bruce R" wrote:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...moon_walk.html Do you remember where you where when Neil walked on the moon?? In some motel room, somewhere in East Central Florida. Spent the morning of the 16th in the Post Office parking lot in Titusville, 11 miles from the pad. I was 8. I remember all that like it happened yesterday. All these years & we should have been cranking out Saturn V bossters the way the Soviets have cranked out R-7's. Damnit. -Kevin in Indy (Certified {or is that certifiable?} Space Cadet) To reply, remove (+spamproof+) from address........ |
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It was 38 years ago today...........
"Bruce R" wrote in message ... 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. 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 |
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