That one photo would be good enough for me as far as personal memories, but man I would be pissed if I got all the way to the moon and no one got any shots of me, I imagine they had plenty of other things on their mind up there though haha, wow what an experience that had to be

Thanks for the reminder.  There was a brief mention of this on the news the other day.  I guess there'll be more attention to that rather enormous event next year at the 40 mark.   Interesting timing at the blast off, it was exactly at the start of a final exam at U of Miami, the prof turned on the radio and we all heard the go.  Well, those were the days.  Some of them, anyway. 

Isn't there a picture of Neil Armstrong saluting the flag? By the way, that isn't the flag unfurled by the breeze. There was a pole that went across the top of the flag to hold it up, as well as the big pole.

Edit: Yep here it is. You can see that pole I was talking about:

Dr.bob7 wrote on Aug 4^th, 2008 at 10:40pm:


...'cos it was much cheaper to film it in the Nevada Desert....

..after all, Nevada isn't very far from Hollywood...and it always looks very "Moonish" at night... ...!

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...the other side of the Flag says:

"Welcome to Nevada. Please drive carefully"

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...obviously the wind has blown it round to face the other way... ...!

...one of those Nevada dust storms?... ...!

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YES Darrnm it ! ,the man went to the moon ,is easy ,READ STUDY PHISICS and see ,stop screwing this great moment in history ,WOULD BE MORE EXPENCIVE TO MAKE SUCH OF A BIG LIE AND KEEP IT TO THE MAN KIND, I really hate everytime I see things like this , Is like the Other tale No It wasn't a plane to hit the pentagon was a missile why you have to make thing so complicated?

JeZZ!

I aint American ,But Only God knows how much I admire and luv that country for things like this ,I mean for the landing on the moon in 1969, I was 5 years old ,and my whole family gather in front of the TV and saw it ,I remember it very clear ,in my southamerican country ...

aaaand for to be the reason why the 2nd world war finish and why we all aren't japanesse or German ...nessee  

     

The man step on the Moon Period.....!










and if any of you will ask why there aren't stars on the photo ,its because to take a shot in environment without atmosphere in an ultra white enviroment you need at least to close the diaphragm to less that 2mm other wise you would be burn the film tape ,Is the same reason you can't see the face of the astronauts for the special Kevlar filter
If you see with your naked eye the surface of the moon with the sun above you ,you would instantly get blind.

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Hagar wrote on Aug 6^th, 2008 at 7:51am:



Well.. yeah.. it is important. It's history... pretty significant history. When we start thinking history is not important... we all know where that ends up.

There was definately a political statement, but there are 1,000 ways to make those. The political gain was more a productive by-product of learning, and puting into practice, getting big things off of this planet.. in/out of the gravitational field; in/out of another field; extra-vehicular activity, and then back down on terra-firma (with people on board no less).  

HUGE learning curves conquered.. from physics to propulsion to life-support.

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I'm a 49 year old, aviation oriented American, with an engineering background..  I've  beat this horse many-a-time, over many-a-year. I normally stay out of discussions like this..  I had a lapse this morning  

Alejandro Rhodes wrote on Aug 6^th, 2008 at 7:07am:



I think we should all chip in and buy Alrot a passport a moving van and a nice apartment her ein the US 
glad to see you think the moon landing and 911 consprices are crap, some people just have to complicate things  *cough* Fozzer *cough*   

This has been locked before, got to like 24 pages... (I know I started it  )

Im with Hagar on this, I dont think this needs to be gone over again

Hagar wrote on Aug 6^th, 2008 at 7:41am:


I normally steer clear of this topic, but i'm bored, so i'll drop a thought in here regarding the possibility that all of the successful Apollo missions were faked to avoid the political effects of failure:

When the Apollo I crew was roasted alive on the pad during a pad-test accident, not only did NASA reveal this information to the world press the following day, Grissom, White and Chaffee made the cover of the next issue of Life, which featured a full story on the accident. The official report was released about a year later, only because every tiny detail had to be covered. there was never any attempt to cover up the tragedy or the shortcomings of the program.

Even if all NASA cared about was "claiming" the Moon before the soviets did, it was actually a more useful  propoganda move to make martyrs of these three astronauts, and harden the resolve of evryone involved to try harder. Covering it up would have been far more difficult, and it wouldn't have produced the galvanizing effect that the truth did.

When Apollo 13 was in trouble, the world was allowed to know almost immediately. NASA did not wait until they were either home safe or lost- keeping the entire world on tenterhooks was actually a brilliant publicity move; much smarter than the smothering secrecy of the Soviet space program. Had the crew of Apollo 13 died out there, there would not have been a fake landing broadcast; I'm pretty convinced of that.

As it turned out, despite the ridiculous cause of 13's problems, the recovery of that flight was probably the most brilliant space enterprise ever; more amazing, in a way, than landing on the moon and returning safely. Flight Director Gene Kranz once said that he was most proud of that mission, problems and all.


Of course, the conspiracy buffs might very well claim that Apollo I was sacrificed intentionally for propoganda purposes, and the Apollo 13 near-disaster was also a hoax... this refusal to accept any evidence of the veracity of the mission reports is like a sort of cult mythology; reason cannot prevail against it.   

The Mythbusters are going to be tackling this disscusion soon. I can't wait for it.

Okay, I'm about to end this debate right here, right now. On Wedensday night, the Mythbusters episode premiered, and I have some videos for you guys. Listen up in the back there Fozzer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wym04J_3Ls0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtWMz51eL0Y&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5taIxlNA_Lw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMBCfuKs9i8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE4w2MIYhC4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmVxSFnjYCA&feature=related

Well there you go. What do you have to say to that Fozzer, especially the last video?

WebbPA wrote on Aug 29^th, 2008 at 7:06pm:


You don't have to like them to agree with their results. That last video with the retroreflectors is indisputable evidence that we went to the moon.

WebbPA wrote on Aug 29^th, 2008 at 9:02pm:


There will always be doubters. Here's my idea. In NASA's upcoming Constellation Program to return to the moon by 2020, they should send a consirator as a passenger. That would clear up most of the conspiracies.

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It won't end the conspiracy theories, because the new photos will be fakes.  A circle has no end.

Fozzer wrote on Jul 8^th, 2009 at 10:26am:

Whoopi Is As Dumb As She Looks

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Good timing, Whoopi, 3 days after pictures of the landers were published.

(* In fact there were 6 manned moon landings, not 5.)

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4_Series_Scania wrote on Aug 4^th, 2009 at 10:50am:

That wouldn't be unique by any stretch of the imagination. Politicians tell lies all the time. That's what they do.

At least there were valid reasons for going to the Moon in the 60s. Can someone please give me one good reason for going back there now.

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What happened last time, 34 Pages and a locked thread

I believe it happened but the only part that has me wondering is something I didn't know about before. About 500 miles out to space out to about 50,000 miles is some extremely high radiation.  I'm just curious know how we were able to shield ourselves from it?

Mike

Thanks Webb.  That helped me understand a lot more!

Mike