Posted on 07/20/2021 4:48:29 PM PDT by PROCON
I saw it at the USO, on TV at the U-Tapao AFB in Thailand.
My Dad was an engineer at Grumman on Long Island. He too was on the design team that worked on the LEM. Lunar Excursion Module.
LOL, OK Mr. Danny Downer but we can still celebrate that incredible American accomplishment!
Oh they are awesome guys, I love them.
That was kind of the point.
The people that would feel betrayed and real sadness the most are guys like this.
It was nice of them to have a reunion for the workers. Good that he was able to make it too.
I don’t know what Dad’s part in all of it was. He worked at an Air Force R&D center here and most of his work was under the Top Secret category. He never discussed it. They had a lot of contracts with NASA over the years and he worked on many of them. That’s the extent of my knowledge of his work. I always wished he could have told us more.
Neat stuff!
Dad was an aeronautical engineer at Arnold Engineering & Development Center at Arnold AF Base here. He worked in one of the wind tunnels but also did some design work. As for what he did regarding Apollo 11, I’ll never know. He never discussed it.
Great video, bring back lots of memories. Thanks.
I was eight years old, sitting in our living room with the family. My grandfather was there, and he had been born on for the Wright brothers flew. He told us about when the first plane flew in Russia when he was five or six years old, with the uneducated peasants hiding in fright because they thought the planes were demons. To this day I cannot imagine what he must’ve thought having seen such a tremendous change in human abilities within his lifetime.
I just can’t believe that after 70 years of amazing progress, we have spent 50 years doing virtually nothing. Having been raised at the height of the Space Race, I expected so much more. We should have colonies on Mars by now, but instead wasted trillions to sacrifice our best young men for pretty much nothing except lining the pockets of politicians and merchants of death.
CQ at Custer Hill Dispensary, Fort Riley, KS. Borrowed a tiny portable TV for the event.
Fry cook at a drive-in theatre.
Small black and white TV somebody brought in.
We stopped work to watch.
Working 50 miles offshore South of Galveston. We barely had TV reception on the drilling rig. Little black and white TV. I saw Armstrong take his first step on the moon. It was great.
I was at the 69 Jamboree too. Small world!
Kubrick did film a movie of a moon landing for NASA. They weren’t sure if the cameras on the LEM would function.
Conspiracy nuts use this to claim that the landing was faked. Well then it was good fakery because several nations were watching with radar and telescopes. I doubt that the USSR would have joined any conspiracy. Lol.
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