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Mr. Armstrong replied: "Thank you Mr. President. It's a great honor and privilege for us to be here representing not only the United States but men of peace of all nations, men with interests and a curiosity and men with a vision for the future." Fucking awesome.
My appreciation circuits were fried at that point. Too few women, too many men. So this text both brought me on the verge of tearing up and annoyed me. Bravo!
:)
So what's the HN consensus - were there landings to begin with or was it all staged? :)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know. But since I know that that kind of language is not ok my appreciation circuits are fried.
You just registered an account to complain about a message of unequivocal world peace from the first human to set foot on an extraplanetary body.
And he did so with misogynist language. Which made me twinge. I don't complain, I state my feelings.
It just shows in what a weird time this was happening.
So what's the HN consensus - were there landings to begin with or was it all staged? :)
3 years ago, I took my laptop to the terrace atop the building I worked in and listened as the sun fell behind the buildings. I was one year old at the time of the actual landing and I'm glad I could join in, even if with a 40 year delay.
So I am optimistic we'll be returning to the Moon within the next 20 years. The reasoning is that technology is advancing to the point where its less and less of a 'big deal.' The last remaining hurdle is 'on-orbit refueling'. Today, the last remaining challenge of landing on the moon, is carrying enough fuel for a trans-lunar injection orbit into orbit, and then for the lander to land on the moon itself. With modern…
Nice. I often like to point out that a 2nd rate country like Iraq was developing the means to launch bulk cargoes to orbit for only $600/kg back in the 1980's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Babylon
High ISP plasma and ion rockets would also lower reaction mass requirements significantly.
Interesting writeup of the various alarms (beeps) that are going off: http://klabs.org/history/apollo_11_alarms/eyles_2004/eyles_2...
At 3:15 you can hear Charlie Duke say "60 seconds" - that's how much time they have until they run out of fuel and need to abort the landing.
So what's the HN consensus - were there landings to begin with or was it all staged? :)
I like this reasoning: If NASA was willing to fake such a big accomplishment, why haven't they done another one in the next 40 years?
For me at least, I hope man goes back to the moon in my lifetime. Dad has always talked about his memories of 1969 (he would have been a teenager at the time) and the excitement of it. I feel like going back after so long will feel almost as momentous for some of my generation. Although possibly not the the majority, which is a little sad.
Note that the 80% and 20% are sheer rhetorical fabrications.