35th Anniversay of the Moon Landing

[morjana]

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the Moon with astronauts Neil
Armstrong, Michael Collins and Ed Aldwin on board.

Being a senior citizen, I can remember watching TV during the Apollo
11 mission, and then going outside with some binoculars to look at
the moon the night of the landing.

Congratulations again to NASA, to the astronauts, and thank you for
all their hard work and courage.

For more info on the 35th Anniversary:

Apollo 11 At 35: Celebrating The Past With A Vision For The Future
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/lunar-04x.html

Armstrong Walked On Moon 35 Years Ago Today
http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/...02/detail.html

35 Years On, NASA Seeks Return to Moon
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?
type=domesticNews&storyID=5721656&src=rss/domesticNews&section=news


Morjana

[aAnubiSs]

That is if they were ever there... *creepy music*

[D.C.]

That's crazy talk.

[Positively Kanyon]

That is if they were ever there... *creepy music*

Hahahahahaha!!! I love that conspiracy theory! Not siding with anyone on this issue but I always get a chuckle whenever new "evidence" pops up regarding the 1969 moon landing...

[Newbie]

there is a good editorial about that on www.startrek.com that i copied to my LJ...so pls check it out!

[PYRO]

ACTUALLY...Only Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon, Collins was on the spacecraft in orbit around the moon to later pick up Neil And Buzz.
Pfft i'm only 13 and I know that....

[morjana]

ACTUALLY...Only Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon, Collins was on the spacecraft in orbit around the moon to later pick up Neil And Buzz.
Pfft i'm only 13 and I know that....

You're absolutely correct.

My original post was poorly worded.

Morjana

[PYRO]

And technicly Apollo 11 dident land on the moon, the Eagle module did.

[greytop]

I just want to congulate the Apollo 11 crew on the anniversay of the Moon Landing. I hope we make it back to the moon and BEYOND..............

[Roatbaum]

Those were days that you had to experience to judge. you can't possibly make an assessment about the 60's if your only frame of reference is the 80's and 90's or even the 70's. They were a world apart from anything that came before or since. But only someone who was there will know what I mean. I was expecting my oldest daughter that July, my husband was in the Navy, and headed for you know where. He was home on leave, we watched it together.You children out there don't have a clue. Seriously.

[Stargate Agent]

Quite something that moon landing. I think it is gonna be quite a many year before we do any large scale space travel again. Our world has bigger priorities right now, those need to be worked out first before we can start thinking about exploring our solar system in manned missions...

[morjana]

Our world has bigger priorities right now, those need to be worked out first before we can start thinking about exploring our solar system in manned missions...

I disagree about our world having bigger priorities right now...we had the very same bigger priorities 35 years ago, and chose to extend our reach.

The technological advances we've made BECAUSE of the space program over the last 50 years have been amazing.

We need to continue striving to accomplish bigger and greater things -- and that includes space travel.

Morjana

[greytop]

Those were days that you had to experience to judge. you can't possibly make an assessment about the 60's if your only frame of reference is the 80's and 90's or even the 70's. They were a world apart from anything that came before or since. But only someone who was there will know what I mean. I was expecting my oldest daughter that July, my husband was in the Navy, and headed for you know where. He was home on leave, we watched it together.You children out there don't have a clue. Seriously.

I did see the moon landing on tv, I was in high school at the time. The time of the moon landing had one of the lowest crime rates that day.

[VirtualCLD]

I believe putting people on the moon AND bringing them hom safely was the greatest technological and cultural achievement in the 20th century... but that's just the engineer in me talking.... GO ENGINEERS!!!

[Anthro Girl]

Our world has bigger priorities right now, those need to be worked out first before we can start thinking about exploring our solar system in manned missions...

Bigger priorities? Like what? My point is that we humans can always come up with something "better" and more pressing to do (stem cell research comes to mind...), but you don't climb a mountain because it's a priority.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, 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.

- John F. Kennedy, Address at Rice University on the Space Effort, September 12, 1962.

That goal set America, not to mention our enemies, into a science and technology renaissance the likes of which we had never seen and, sadly, may never see again. Many a technological achievement came out of the moon landings (from joysticks to medical imaging), so no one can say it has been for naught. I am proud of our space program. I'm proud as a human, not just an American. I'm proud of what we accomplished and believe there is so much more to be done/learned/accomplished.