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 ...
darn right! you called that dead on the money Sick!! NOTHING was, or has been, as cool/neat,(old guy speak),as Projects Mercury/Gemini/Apollo and the STUDS who went up! My God those MEN were bowling ball sized. Quite a time in our Country huh? Those MEN were flat out something! Now......????......muslim hussein is asking the American people and NASA to regonize the muSLIME’S efforts!! Good God.
It depicts the first few minutes of Armstrong's descent which was recorded in Australia as NASA was still scrambling for a signal....
Telescopes in remote Australia played a key role in the Apollo 11 mission....
The author of the article doesn't seem to be aware of the fact that the DSN station in Woomera and later Tidbinbilla, Australia and another near Madrid, Spain were the property of the American tax payers and operated by NASA employees.
I have to wonder if this is just ignorance on their part or are we seeing the beginnings of an attempt to revise history to make the American Apollo program more of a "multi-cultural" effort.
Did this little pig cry, "Wee Wee Wee," all the way home?
I like this one ... "Journal Contributors Owen Merrick, Brian McInall, and Markus Mehring call attention to the fact that, in the high-resolution version, we can see Buzz peering over at Neil."
I agree.
When I was young I lived in a country that could land a man on the moon. Sadly I now live in a country that will soon have to pay the Russians for a ride to low earth orbit in one of their spacecraft to visit a space station that we largely paid for.
What’s this? We made it to the moon?
When my kids were little ( early 80's ) we took them to an Apollo exhibition at the Chicago Museum of Science an Industry which featured a moon rock on display. They were entirely unimpressed, and completely unswayed by my pleading, "It's from the moon!" I could have cried ... still could.
Why does Yahoo suck so bad? Where is the easy link to see the new pics/footage?
I was about to post De Toqueville, who btw is considered to be required reading for conservatives.
Somebody tell Inspector Harry Callahan!
American exceptionalism is the worldview that the United States occupies a special role among the nations of the world in terms of its national ethos, political and religious institutions, and its being built by immigrants.
In the immediately preceding paragraph De Tocqueville states that he considers the American people to be an extension of England:
In spite of the ocean that intervenes, I cannot consent to separate America from Europe. I consider the people of the United States as that portion of the English people who are commissioned to explore the forests of the New World, while the rest of the nation, enjoying more leisure and less harassed by the drudgery of life, may devote their energies to thought and enlarge in all directions the empire of mind.
De Tocqueville did say that Americans occupied an exceptional position among democratic states, but that exceptional state was largely geographic. Americans lived in
"a new and unbounded country, where they may extend themselves at pleasure and which they may fertilize without difficulty. This state of things is without a parallel in the history of the world.
The theme of that chapter of Democracy in America is that Americans aren't really the uncultured rubes that they appear to be to their more civilized European cousins.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/ch1_09.htm
It’s a fabulous movie; I am filmdom’s severest critic, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
America as an idea, as an ideology, is a distinctly leftist notion. Which is why we find the formerly anti-Stalinist leftist Lipset saying “the United States is a country organized around an ideology”. You can get the boy out of the Party, but you can’t always get the party out of the boy. His old habits of thought still surface from time to time.
Conservatism is a non ideology, an anti-ideology, rooted in the organic culture of a particular people. This was a theme repeated often by Russell Kirk, harking back to Edmund Burke. You want a country begun in ideology, look to Revolutionary France. Or to the Jacobin movements it inspired, including communism. But it has nothing to do with America and it’s founding. America was a nearly two hundred year old society that seceded from England. It didn’t reinvent itself. It didn’t organize itself around an idea. The founders built upon the self government and love of liberty that had long been part of the frontier society of the American colonials.
Then you’d best find some other section of Democracy in America to make your case. De Tocqueville was writing about Americans’ lack of cultural refinement in that Wikipedia quote. See post 55.
I strongly encourage you to read the book, and not rely on wikipedia to tell you what to believe.
I actually get the opposite impression, that it is the bravest, the best of europe that went abroad to make their life in America.
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