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Wow,what a day that was! To commemorate the occasion CBS pressed 7" 33 rpm recordings with Walter Cronkite doing the narrating. My mom bought this for me. She got it from PENN FRUIT,a big supermarket located near where we lived in SW Philly.
I think LPs were pressed too but never saw one.
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I still have a copy of the New York Times published the day after that great event, with the huge headline, "MAN WALKS ON MOON" (I think).
From Fred/Ferd's post below:"There we were keeping the Bolsheviks away from the portals of Democracy," (a reference to Vietnam).
Isn't it odd, ironic, sad, (choose your term), that after the "space race" we are now in the unenviable position of relying on the "Bolsheviks" to get our (the U.S.) astronauts to and from the International Space Station while at the same time being at odds with them regarding Syria, Ukraine and other issues, while buddying up with Communist Vietnam.
Bringing this thread back to Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin landing on the Moon, and our space program in general...
I watched it happen back '69, and have hours of audio tape of it, as well as a few screen shots of the landing. In a fairly lengthy side trip into personal computer class teaching, astronaut Story Musgrave (who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope repair) was in one of my classes at the Johnson Space Center. How cool is that?! Some years later, around the early 2000's, my son and I attended a talk which Neil Armstrong gave at the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) convention. When he arrived, he was all smiles and friendly, but not stopping to shake hands. He walked, literally, within 3 feet of us who were lined up to greet him. I told my son to just reach out to shake his hand, but he was too unsure and didn't want to start anything. That's ok. Still, we're both glad we were there!
:)
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Later Gator,
Dave
You might have missed my points about the "space race" and our dependence on the Russians with regard to our astronauts.FYI, it's "than", not "then".
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I wish I had the Walter Cronkite version.
I have this gatefold album with an 8 page insert narrated my Roy Neal of NBC News. I think I bought this a soon as it came out in late 1969 or early 1970.
I was in basic training as a freshman (Class of 73) at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs when this happened. What an amazing event.
I was 8 that summer, Sept b-day, and was amazed and awed. I remember really being into spaceflight including Gemini even though I was just a little kid. I had the GI Joe Mercury spacecraft, Major Matt Nelson figures and lord knows what else, lots of cool spaceflight books geared towards kids. My dad gave me what was probably a refrigerator box that I turned into my own space capsule. Watched the whole mission with Walter and Wally.
NASA TV is running the moonwalk tonight at 10:30 Eastern as it happened then.
I was 11 at that time. Watched it on tv with my parents. Amazing,awesome. Those were my Wonder Years. I really miss the 60s Space Age.
It was the summer between high school and college. I was working that summer and had to be at work by 7am the next morning. The walk happened very late that Sunday night. I couldn't miss it. Monday was a very long day.
-Wendell
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when they touched down I was in the shower on the SSBN 643 (a Polaris A3 FBM Submarine a couple of hundred miles off the Kola Peninsula pointing missiles (MIRV's) at Ivan.
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nada
Trained a ton of corpsmen and women who went to Vietnam, most to the big hospital at Da Nang, but some went on to the elite air rescue groups in 'Nam.
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As much of a pacifist as I am, I sure dig the 'toys' developed for battle. I would cut off my pinky finger for a tour and ride in one of those submarines. They had showers in those things?
BTW I wasn't even born when Armstrong and company touched down.
Waxy- With the Reactor we had essentially unlimited energy, we'd be submerged on patrol for up to 3 months at a time, we made our own
02 and H20 from seawater we had 2 small private showers, we could shower any time.
Regards Ferd
Three months at a time. You fellas must have been pre-screened for 'cabin fever' tendencies. I guess you were probably kept busy enough so as to not have the time for the mind to wander. What kind of shifts were you on if you don't mind me asking… 12 hour?
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Depending on the circumstances at the time either 3 section (8hr) or port and starboard (12hr)
Regards Ferd
Wow! I was in the Air Force like Henry, but I was in the 19th TASS stationed with the 1st Air Cavalry at Phuoc Vinh, Vietnam. I think I missed the moon landing, too. ;-)
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What happened to all your good looks? (winky face)
John
There we were keepin the Bolsheviks away from the portals of Democracy, We are some seriously old farts ;-)
Kind Regards Ferd
> We are some seriously old farts ;-)
Oh, well. Such is life!
We were young once. ;-)
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