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New Australian footage of Neil Armstrong's moon walk
AP ^ | Tue Sep 28, 5:46 am ET | Unknown

Posted on 09/28/2010 7:47:29 PM PDT by Redcitizen

SYDNEY (AFP) – Long-lost footage of Neil Armstrong descending the ladder of the Apollo 11 lunar module will be screened in public for the first time in Sydney next week, a prominent astronomer told AFP.

The footage runs for a few minutes and is considered to be some of the best footage of the historic 1969 moonwalk, but the film was lost in archives for many years and was badly damaged when found, said John Sarkissian.

It depicts the first few minutes of Armstrong's descent which was recorded in Australia as NASA was still scrambling for a signal, showing a far clearer image than was initially screened worldwide.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: history; moon; space
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To: Redcitizen

Just simply amazing that it was lost at all. Apparently NASA didn’t gave a hoot.


21 posted on 09/28/2010 8:28:02 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: Redcitizen

There was a great family film that came out in 200 about Australia’s connection to the Moon Landing... check it out...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dish


22 posted on 09/28/2010 8:31:59 PM PDT by Kukai
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To: PetroniusMaximus

“American Exceptionalism”

Does anybody know when and where this phrase originated?

I suspect it was invented by Seymour Martin Lipset in the 1990s to represent the neoconservative theory that America is a country founded on an ideology, rather than the conservative view of a country founded by an historic people.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/americanexceptionalism.htm

I don’t see why conservatives adopt it. At best it’s hubris, at worst it’s warmed over marxism with a patriotic camouflage.


23 posted on 09/28/2010 8:32:41 PM PDT by Pelham (Deport Aunt Zeituni and her alien nephew)
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To: dr_lew

No. Is it good?


24 posted on 09/28/2010 8:35:20 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Redcitizen

>I say we should go back.
*****

Of course. Bush said we were going back but Jarjar Obama scrapped the budget. The footage is far superior than what NASA currently shows us.


25 posted on 09/28/2010 8:35:42 PM PDT by max americana (Hoax and Chains, Dopeychangey)
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To: Redcitizen

I say we put Obama and Pelosi on the moon and leave them there.


26 posted on 09/28/2010 8:35:44 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: Redcitizen

Outtakes from the footage my long retired sworn to secrecy cousin took at the legendary Burbank studio that once had hosted the silver screen legends like Edna Purveyance, Fatty Arbuckle and Harold Lloyd.


27 posted on 09/28/2010 8:39:37 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Kukai

“Some of the “props” were in fact original NASA equipment used during the Apollo 11 landing, left behind in Australia as they were too heavy to ship back.”

Neat movie. Although it goes to show- don’t throw things out. You might need it. =)


28 posted on 09/28/2010 8:41:58 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: KevinDavis; Fred Nerks

Thanks Redcitizen.


29 posted on 09/28/2010 8:44:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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To: BallyBill

Just another walkabout.


30 posted on 09/28/2010 8:46:03 PM PDT by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP!)
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To: Redcitizen

Bookmark


31 posted on 09/28/2010 8:48:12 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: Redcitizen

Thank God there was an Aussie cameraman on the moon!


32 posted on 09/28/2010 9:03:20 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
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To: Kukai

Saw that movie a couple of years ago- my astronomy club operates an observatory near Georgian Bay (Ontario, Canada) and the facility includes a library of videos and DVDs to watch when there is no sky. Superb film- my favourite scene was the employees on a break playing cricket on the dish itself.


33 posted on 09/28/2010 9:05:52 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (TSA and DHS are jobs programs for people who are not smart enough to flip burgers)
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To: Redcitizen
My dad worked at NASA/JSC during the moon shots, I had friends and went to school with kids whose fathers went to the moon. I have absolutely no doubt our astronauts went there and have great respect for the people that actually did the work - BUT - if NASA's mission is to now promote Moslems and global warming climate change disruption, let NASA die.
34 posted on 09/28/2010 9:05:58 PM PDT by theymakemesick ( islam - inspired by Satan www.prophetofdoom.net)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Excellent film- trust me, if you’re into space at all you’ll love it.


35 posted on 09/28/2010 9:07:05 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (TSA and DHS are jobs programs for people who are not smart enough to flip burgers)
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To: Pelham

Nope.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism

“The French writer Alexis de Tocqueville first wrote about it in his 1831 work Democracy in America:[7]

The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one. Their strictly Puritanical origin, their exclusively commercial habits, even the country they inhabit, which seems to divert their minds from the pursuit of science, literature, and the arts, the proximity of Europe, which allows them to neglect these pursuits without relapsing into barbarism, a thousand special causes, of which I have only been able to point out the most important, have singularly concurred to fix the mind of the American upon purely practical objects. His passions, his wants, his education, and everything about him seem to unite in drawing the native of the United States earthward; his religion alone bids him turn, from time to time, a transient and distracted glance to heaven. Let us cease, then, to view all democratic nations under the example of the American people.[8]”


36 posted on 09/28/2010 9:12:55 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: I still care
People @ Johnson Space Center aren't real happy either.

It makes no sense to kill the space program, IMO...why the bozo POTUS is doing it.

I think he is vindictive towards Texas because he didn't carry our state.

37 posted on 09/28/2010 9:13:43 PM PDT by lonestar
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To: Redcitizen
I say we should go back.

So do I.

It breaks my heart that our nation didn't continue to fund the lunar exploration program. What's sadder still, is that we may have even lost the manufacturing capability to return there today.

38 posted on 09/28/2010 9:14:29 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Pelham

Furthermore...

“In 1927 Jay Lovestone, leader of the Communist Party in America, defined American exceptionalism as the increasing strength of American capitalism, a strength which he said prevented Communist revolution”


39 posted on 09/28/2010 9:15:31 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: Bigh4u2

The flag is impossible to see from earth. There aren’t any telescopes capable of focusing on such a small object that far away. And no Hubble is not good enough.

The biggest telescope being built right now - Magellan - won’t even be able to focus on our flag. It’s simply too small. Too many variables, and the technology doesn’t even exist. We need to build something about 3 times the size of Magellan. That might sound easy, but we have no idea how to build a telescope that big.

May your using something different? :)


40 posted on 09/28/2010 9:17:41 PM PDT by Jlazoon
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