Forty-three years ago today: Looking back at Apollo 11

[Jimbuna]

I remember watching it all in awe as an eleven year old on a black and white tv in the school library.

[TarJak]

I was only a young'en of 4 years old but I still recall sitting in my grandmothers lounge room watching it on a black and white TV as well. I think this interview with Neil Armstrong is still one of the best accounts of the preparations and landing I've seen or heard: http://thebottomline.cpaaustralia.co...utmk=119942664

[Jimbuna]

There are still people out there who claim it was a con and never actually happened

[U-snafu]

I wasnt alive (showed up here around 1972)---but as a teenager---ate books on the apollo, mercury, project, etc. luved the "to the moon and back" vid series.

Tis a shame that we can't even get into orbit now in 2012 without hitching a ride with someone else or waiting for corporations to get is back up there


As an aside---I don't know if this has already been posted somehwere on the forum so sorry incase it has. A neat little 15 minute fictional radiodrama based on a real written speech in case the first landing was a disaster...

http://theunobserved.com/theatre/moon_graffiti/

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

There are still people out there who claim it was a con and never actually happened

Silly buggers.

[mako88sb]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

There are still people out there who claim it was a con and never actually happened

Yes, a few months ago, some clown was trying to get a petition going on youtube asking the current administration to investigate the Apollo landings. He had 30 days and was supposed to get 25,000 legit online signatures before the end of March. He ended up with 94 and a lot of them where from outside of the country or obvious made up fake accounts so in fact his grand total was probably about half that. It didn't deter him one bit and he's still spouting off about how the "whisper will turn to a roar" and expose the fake landings.

Then there's another crackpot from France who goes by the youtube name of "hunchbacked". He has well over 200 videos he's done in the last few years that supposedly expose "intended incoherence's" as he calls them, that show how some of NASA's engineers and scientist where trying to leave subtle clues in the documentation and video records to somehow let the world know that the CIA was behind the alleged faked landings. This nutcase claims to be an aerospace engineer among other things and also believes he will be compared to Galileo someday when the "truth" is uncovered.

[MH]

When i was kid i though 21 century would be like this....

[eddie]

Here's a neat little video done by NASA on exactly where the Eagle touched down on the moon.

[Sea Demon]

Neat posts all around. I was born right after Apollo 14 and remember nothing. I was 1.5 years old during Apollo 17. Still very fascinated with this program.