You can follow along with Buzz and Neil and Mike and Mission Control here: First Men on the Moon
If you’re not up for going that far from home, you can always go for a walk around your yard. You know, from space:
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A Man Who Has Nothing In Particular To Recommend Him Discusses All Sorts of Subjects at Random as Though He Knew Everything
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Don’t you know it was all a fake?
Just don’t tell General Aldrin that…he’s likely to punch you out.
Watching this always brings a tear to my eye. To know we had this capability, and our country threw it away with both hands in order to fund collectivist redistribution.
Hi Blackwing- Thanks for reading and commenting.
I was just a little kid but I remember watching Armstrong step on the moon on my uncle’s TV set. It’s just one of those big milestones that stick in your mind, while so many other things fade.
I grew up with the space program watching every launch I could on the tube. When I retired and moved south to escape the cold and snow I landed about 20 miles from where they launch from. I watch them go up from the backyard if i’m awake. I was woken by one at 3:43 this morning, thunder that goes on for a bit. Watching them come back and land tickles my Flash Gordon every time.
Hi Ralph- Thanks for reading and commenting.
Watching rocket launches live must be quite a trip. When I was very young, sometimes my dad would take me to a nearby small airport, and park on a street at the end of the runway. We’d watch with little Cessnas and Beechcrafts take off and land right over our heads. They did that little side-slipping action when they got airborne that prop planes do, that makes them more interesting to watch. My father flew on bomber planes, and I think he missed the feeling of flying somewhat. I never got tired of it.