OT: Moon Landing 40th anniversary

[animal]

Giant steps are what you take....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandte ... music.html

[New Zealand Promoter]

i understand that contrary to their concerns, their legs did not in fact break.

[smudge]

The ambition to take 'giant steps' and 'walk forever' was curtailed by Mission Control - cruelly reduced to 'one small step'.

[smax]

there were some concerns raised about the effects on the previously well-motivated astronauts, some members of the crew were heard to say that they were going to "play all day", some even suggested that they could "live together" on the moon; an idea immediately frowned upon by NASA.

[63falcon]

slightly OT of the OT, Neil Armstrong was the Commencement Speaker for my graduating class at VPI. We were so excited about the First Man on the Moon that I am afraid we neglected to listen to his wisdom..... -and no one in my group ( the bubblegum group) was even drunk !

[BongoBoy]

Facinating stuff.

Right now I am watching the spacewalk on CNN.com

This stuff really gives you perspective.

(I wish they would fly all of Congress up there to have a meeting....nah, they wouldn't care.)

One small step....

BB.

[samburusunset]

Saw an excellent episode of Mythbusters on Discovery where they debunked the skeptics' theories that the moon landing was all staged. I don't remember the moon landing, per se. But I do remember the Apollo missions.

Gotta love the geekiness of Jamie and Adam.

[smudge]

[quote="smax"]there were some concerns raised about the effects on the previously well-motivated astronauts, some members of the crew were heard to say that they were going to "play all day", some even suggested that they could "live together" on the moon; an idea immediately frowned upon by NASA.[/quote]

Do we have an OT post of the year award? If so, I nominate this.Genius.