The REAL reason we've never went back.
Posted on 01/07/2024 5:46:51 AM PST by beejaa
The speaker is Eugene "Gene" Cernan an American astronaut who was the last person to walk on the Moon during NASA's Apollo 17 mission in December 1972. My team recorded this interview in 1994. Cernan's first spaceflight was as the pilot of the Gemini 9A mission in June 1966. He served as the lunar module pilot for Apollo 10 in May 1969, a mission that served as a dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 lunar landing. Cernan and his fellow crew members flew to within 9.7 miles of the lunar surface but did not land.
Cernan's most significant achievement came as the commander of Apollo 17, NASA's final manned lunar mission. This mission took place from December 7 to December 19, 1972. Cernan, along with Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans, conducted extensive geological experiments on the Moon, collected valuable samples, and spent a total of about 22 hours on the lunar surface. Cernan's departure from the Moon's surface on December 14, 1972, marked the last time a human set foot on the Moon to date...
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Died January 16, 2017 aged 82.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.” - George S. Patton
Younger people can’t know how ordinary the extraordinary used to be to Americans, competence, and excellence were merely normal, from the woman at the bank window to the men putting a golf ball on the moon, to the owner of the hamburger stand making burgers you remember to this day.
NASA wants to send your name to the moon aboard its Artemis Robotic Moon Rover
Amen Brother!
Well said. But, just a note: Alan Shepard did not putt a golf ball on the moon. He drove it several country miles...one handed.
Agreed, and it’s something I try to help them with by showing them how it’s done. Example was last Friday. Had to go to the bank to sign some Trust documents. Four hour drive. The bank had insisted that I sign in their office. Emailed Thursday to let them know I’d be in around 10:00 the next morning if that worked for them. Nope. Nobody there could help me at that, or any other, time Friday. Called them. Young kid/assistant mngr. He did his best to carry out his assigned duty of letting me know I was high and dry. In a friendly but unmistakably firm way, I explained that it was a banking day, the bank was open for business, and I, as a well-established client, simply wished to conduct some very straightforward banking business and didn’t that sound reasonable? We agreed that yes, it did, and he made it happen. Hopefully a lesson there for him, but Jeeezzzisss.
Of all the symbols and examples of what affirmative action, feminism, and the third-world immigration laws did to America I find the most mind-blowing one to be that more than a half-century ago an American could play golf on the moon, and we were traveling back and forth to the moon.
DEI has been dealt a blow with the (partial) resignation of Claudine Gay. I’m not saying that we’re done with it completely, however. It’s an industry.
I would have told him that either make it happen or close my account and cut me a cashier’s check for the balance.
The other alternative is to open up your cell phone in front of him.
Log into Ally Bank and open an account. Ask him if you want me to transfer my balance.
Brick and Mortar banks are going the way of so many other retail institutions.
Most people under the age of thirty do all of their banking online.
I am speaking from the experience of my 25 year old son. He uses Ally Bank.
He has a checking and high yield savings account with him
I’m in agreement that Ceran’s interview was enjoyable.
Here is a great example of where we are today.
Biden’s Nominee To Lead FAA Can’t Answer A Single Question About Aviation & Air Travel Ted Budd Asks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEj2Yq0okzU
It was to that point... The thing that’s weird (to me, anyways) is that these younger people act as if working is some kind of punishment; that its challenges aren’t things to be victoriously overcome. I’ve always loved to work, and loved to solve the problems that come with literally any job, from the lowest ranch hand to executive (and I’ve been both). They completely miss out on the camaraderie found in groups of smart people coming together to really bust out a creative, effective solution to a seemingly impossible problem. That is to say, really, that they have lost some of their human-ness.
Knew him for 10+ years. Owned a Cessna 421B. He kept in perfect condition. Took me and my son to his ranch in Kerrville, so my son could shot his first deer. Loved his dogs. Great man.
Wow. What a great guy to know.
I asked why he didn’t land Apollo 10 on the moon. He said there wasn’t enough fuel to land and takeoff.
I might have turned into a curmudgeon, but exactly why are we spending billions of dollars that we do not have just to go to the moon? So what if we map its surface? Yahoo! And who is going to look at the pictures in a few years? (How often do we look at the thousands of pictures we take with our phones?) And I do not want anything coming back from the moon. Nothing. Who knows what effect it could have on the earth and its inhabitants?
Trips to the moon are nothing more than a “look and see what I did!” endeavor. Yes, certain things have been invented to meet the challenge, but they could have been invented without spending billions of dollars on essentially-worthless space trips.
Color me skeptical and cynical.
“They completely miss out on the camaraderie found in groups of smart people coming together to really bust out a creative, effective solution to a seemingly impossible problem.”
Thanks, you have put into words what I have been trying to describe to my team of work-at-home-and-never-talk-to-each-others. Even if it is just one afternoon a week, we really need to get together and sit in the same room and solve the seemingly impossible problems we deal with together. Instead they sit at home and mostly watch sports on TV or babysit their kids.
Of course, one of them wouldn’t qualify as “smart” (maybe not even average), but the others certainly do.
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