Anniversary of Apollo 11

[screaming eagle2]

20 July is the 41st anniversary of Apollo11 landing on the Moon.It was a great moment in American history.It's too bad our governments leaders decided that NASA abandon its mission to explore the unknown in favor of making the Islamic people "feel good about themselves.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Chappaquiddick happened the same night. Ted Kennedy was probably one of the few Americans not glued to a TV set.

[Cindy]

Thread Bump.

[Ready4Freddy]

July 18, 1969.

[John Leland 1789]

Who remembers what they were doing at the time?

In those years I was a member of a private musical and twirling organization for youth, called, The Weldonians. The night before, we had been on an outing, marching in some parade, or performing somewhere with the Show Band unit.

A dozen of us had a sleep-over at one member’s house in Fremont, California, so that we could all be together to watch the TV reports and feedbacks of the landing.

It was an exciting time.

[BobP]

It was a great day. I stayed up way past my bedtime on a Sunday night. My, how things have changed.

Not to change the subject too much but, I give you the new face of NASA:

WAKE UP AMERICA!

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Houston we have a problem...

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[catfish1957]

Love that billboard. I think alot of those should pop up in Novemeber 2010 and 2012, in swing states and districts.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I noticed several billboards with “RR” in the lower right corner on I-44 yesterday. The boards carried a quotation from the Gipper.

[catfish1957]

Missouri will be a key state if we are to win in 2012. Great news.

[Non-Sequitur]

20 July is the 41st anniversary of Apollo11 landing on the Moon.It was a great moment in American history.It's too bad our governments leaders decided that NASA abandon its mission to explore the unknown in favor of making the Islamic people "feel good about themselves.

Yeah, if not for the Obama administration we'd be on course to repeat the Apollo 11 landing in time for the 60th anniversary.

[screaming eagle2]

better than not doing it at all

[Non-Sequitur]

Maybe private industry could do to sooner, cheaper and better?

[Thermalseeker]

Love that billboard.

"Hope" should be changed to "Hype" and then it would be perfect.....

[Carlucci]

Here’s a link to full(?) mission audio. Last year they played it in real time 40 years to the second. Now you can listen to it at your leisure:

http://wechoosethemoon.org/

[Ezekiel]

"RAWHIDE"

"RENEGADE"

[Arrowhead1952]

"RENEGADE"

"@ HOLE"

[null and void]

What were the very first words transmitted back from the surface of the Moon?

(Trick question)

[ratzoe]

“Houston. Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has Landed.”

???

[null and void]

Nope.

(I told you it’s a trick question)

[So Cal Rocket]

If you mean the first words spoken after the LM touched the moon, they would be “Contact light”

[null and void]

Re: your tagline, me too.

Here’s a ping for you Barbara.

[dfwgator]

;)

[null and void]

Arguably yes.

I’m looking for the first words spoken after the actual landing itself.

The four words between “Contact light” and “Houston. Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has Landed.”

[hoagy62]

“Capricorn One”. The second guy from the right, if you’ll recall, is everyone’s favorite convict and wife-killer, Orenthal James “OJ” Simpson.

Just a bit o’trvia for your day.

[hoagy62]

“Contact Light”
“Okay...engine stopped”
“Houston...Tranquility Base here...the Eagle has landed.”

[null and void]

“Okay...engine stopped”

Close enough.

The first words after the actual landing, the words that let Houston know they had landed, were:

[drumroll]

“Cycle the Parker valve”

This was the main engine valve, cycling it stopped the engine. The first words were merely procedural, never intended to be of Historical Significance, and worse were effectively an advertisement for Parker-Hannifin. They have been purged from every recording of the event I have ever been able to find.

I only remember it because that valve was built in the cleanroom my dad worked in (although he didn’t assembly that particular valve, he did build the equivalent valve for subsequent missions)

Anyway, that’s FR’s Über-trivia for the day.

Thanks for playing...

[null and void]

OJ was in Capricorn One? I didn’t know that. That’s a pretty good piece of trivia too!

[shredderman]

I was 6 years old and had special permission from my Mom & Dad to stay up late and watch Neil step off the LM. I remember afterwards running out to the front porch and looking up at the moon to see if I could see the Astronauts getting out and walking around.

Tonight, at 10:59pm, I’ll raise a glass to toast those two brave Americans who made a Boy dream of better things to come. I’m still hoping for them to happen..........

[screaming eagle2]

i believe they were;”Ok,engine stop”The official first words were”Tranquility Base here.The Eagle has landed”

[null and void]

Tonight, at 10:59pm, I’ll raise a glass to toast those two brave Americans who made a Boy dream of better things to come. I’m still hoping for them to happen..........

Yeah. Obama canceled the Constellation program and retasked NASA to making muslims feel better about themselves.

To destroy a people, destroy their dreams.

[shredderman]

I totally agree. I’m almost ashamed to say I’m an American, but I keep up hope that the Country will wake up from this nightmare!

[null and void]

Have you heard NASA’s new slogan?

[shredderman]

No, not yet........bet it’s something “good” though :-)

[null and void]

With the muslim outreach the new slogan is:

...wait for it...

...wait...

...wait...

“We beheading into space”

Thank you, I’ll be here all week...

[shredderman]

Ha,HA!!! Oh, Man...Good One! :-) Keeps me smiling all day! Thanks!