Open Thread – Happy Moon Day!
The open thread is a bit early tonight in commemoration of a very special moment that happened 42 years ago just about now.
As you sit tonight and look up at the moon, think of this. Whether you were alive or not, or too young to remember, this video really brings home the excitement of that historical day – July 20. 1969. The very first humans looked up at the Moon in wonder hundreds of thousands of years ago, but it wasn’t until 42 years ago today that human footprints appeared on its surface. Truly a moment of joy, awe, and marvel at what humankind can achieve.
This is part of an email I got from Audobon today:
“After more than a year of difficult negotiation, senators representing the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida have finally reached agreement on a proposal to restore the Gulf coast following the devastation of the BP oil spill.
The details of the agreement will be unveiled in the coming days, but what is certain is this will represent an unprecedented investment in restoring coastal Louisiana and other critical habitats of the Gulf coast.
The agreement will direct at least $5 billion toward Gulf restoration, drawing from BP penalties under the Clean Water Act levied as a result of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.”
Krubozumo Nyankoye, I, too am frustrated with how few voters turned out in ’10. Then again, I never take my vote for granted, and vote in every primary and general, no matter the year, even if it’s “just” for judges or something “small.” I worked hard (along with hundreds of thousands, if not millions of others) to get the vote for the 18-year-old. When I turned 18, I was one of the first to vote.
Zyxomma – voting is the key to all the issues we face. Ironically I was already past 21 when they changed the age to 18 but you can bet I would have been voting before if I had been able. I have heard that in the 2010 elections the turnout was about 45% of eligible voters. That means that most of the people elected were put in office by not much more than about 25% of the electorate if that. Information is not the problem, it is getting people to go to the polls. The repubs are pulling out all the stops to surpress the vote in the next election. We must make sure they fail.
This is reall neat! Sit in the cockpit of the shuttle. Move the mouse around.
http://360vr.com/2011/06/22-discovery-flight-deck-opf_6236/index.html
I like!
Thanks! That’s a nice site.
We all seem to recall where we were when the first two humans landed on the moon. Does anyone remember any of the other missions? In particular the last one? That is kind of a seque into mentioning what is probably the most important of the spinoffs – though of course it wasn’t a spinoff it was actually one of the primary missions, to return lunard rocks to earth, to actually sample for the first time an extraterrestrial body. The last mission was unique in at least one respect, it was the only time a civilian was a member of the lunar landings, Harrison Schmidt (sp?) who I actually met once at a Lunar and Planetary Science Conference many years later. He’s a geologist but his politics are distasteful to me and he has long since abandoned his scientific ideals and ethics.
By a curious coincidence it just happens that we are now on the cusp of another epical human achievement that nobody has heard anything about but that is arguably even more significant than the technological feat of travelling to and returning safely from the moon. On Monday at the Euro-physics conference the final papers will be given on the results of the first full year of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. The objective of these experiments is to determine if the Higgs boson exists and constrain its mass. It might even be identified specifically but that is unlikely. There are three possible outcomes from the work that has been done. One experiment, if unsuccessful in the sense of finding the Higgs could cast serious doubt on all the existing theories of particle physics, the so-called standard model. I don’t sufficiently understand the physics to know whether this experiment would be a complete deal breaker or not but it might be. If its results are inconclusive or ambiguous there are a handful of other experiments whose results are to be reported that are efforts at much more narrow and specific definition of the Higgs’ mass. Any of them might be successful, ambiguous, or conclusively exclude some range of mass values for the Higgs. So Monday will be another milestone of sorts. It will get far less attention of course because it is an esoteric subject and not very photogenic. It would only “make news” if the Higgs was found.
There is another little twist to this story. The work I am talking about here has been conducted mostly by European scientists (though there are plenty of US scientists involved as well) and entirely in Europe at CERN. [For those of you who do not know the WWW was invented at CERN. No I don’t mean the internet, HTML and and the server software and all the many other elements that are foundational to the world wide web were developed by computer scientists at CERN so that they could share their data with anyone anywhere that had an internet connection. ] Why you might well ask was the US relegated to a secondary role in this immense undertaking? Because more than a decade ago, the US Congress decided arbitrarily to build a particle physics facility that would have rivaled or exceeded the ability of the LHC, called the superconducting supercollider. Same exact principals but slightly larger scale, in Texas instead of at the existing high energy particle physics laboratory in Illionis and then after spending a couple of billion dollars, arbitrarily cancelled the entire project. Just recently they have completely defunded FERMI Lab which is the Illinois facility so soon it will also be shut down entirely. The funding for Fermi Lab is well under $1 billion per year. About 2 days worth of war in Iraq.
So in some respects, since that memorable day 42 years ago we have made progress, and in other respects we have gone backwards. The US is no longer the xenith of scientific and technological development. We have ceded our pre-emminence to greed. The narrow minded and willfully ignorant have reached an ascendency wherein power and money transcend every other human impulse.
At the same time as we anticipate what I have written about here, we can also anticipate either the further unfolding of the egregious corruption and debasement of the first second and fourth estates in our staunch ally Britain or a craven retreat and whitewash from revealing the truth of the extent to which the oligarchs have risen to a level of unprecedented domination. The the same kind of cancerous corruption has not happened in the US is a palpably remote possibility. How many times has the harping chorus of Fox News driven people from political office in just the last two years?
I’ll make one more comment here, regarding the following post, political action is certainly past due and I am encouraged to see it is being furthered in AK. But it is clearly not enough. The elections of 2010 were but tepidly concerning to a significant majority of voters who simply did not bother to vote. In consideration of the current media frenzy of the artificial crisis of the debt ceiling, one wonders how the right wing can reconciled their cavilier attitude to default against the incessant preaching that only dead beats and shirkers can’t pay their debts. So I will make a short comment over on that thread to draw some readers back to here and maybe ignite some discussion.
Greg Palast, one of my very favorite investigative journalists, has a great article at Truthout:
http://www.truth-out.org/its-not-default-obama-jail-gop-deadbeats-debt-crisis/1311268412
It’s about the debt ceiling, the deficit, and other excuses to strip us of hard-won and hard-earned so-called entitlements.
On a completely different topic, please, all mudpups, with the heat wave that’s scorching the country, be extra cautious when dealing with the handling of food.
I had dinner with a friend at a well-known chain on Tuesday and, as usual, brought a good portion of my dinner home with me. We had a lot to talk about and the restaurant was surprisingly busy so we left our table and sat at the benches outside for a while. When I got home, I put the leftovers in the refrigerator and noted that it was well under the 2 hour safety recommendation for unrefrigerated food. That night I was fine so I know there was nothing wrong with my original meal. However…
Last night I heated up the leftovers, which included chicken parmigiana. A few hours later, I started getting some pains in my abdomen but nothing too serious. By midnight, the pains were much worse and, by 2 am, my stomach was violently expelling its contents. That continued until about 5 when, with nothing left in it, my stomach still seemed determined to expel even the memory of any and all food from the last week. In between those fun episodes, I alternated between my bed and couch, unsuccessfully trying to find ANY position that would relieve the, by then, unrelenting pain in my entire lower body. Simultaneously shivering and sweating profusely, I soaked through two shirts. I remember looking at the clock at 6:10 and noting that, if school was still in session, I would be getting up for work already, even though I had yet to enjoy even a few minutes of sleep. Exhaustion finally overtook me a little after that and I slept until the heat of the house woke me a bit after 9. I turned on the AC and slept again until after 12.
I seem to be okay now and the tea and cinnamon toast I had for lunch appears to be staying put, so I hope that the worst is over.
PLEASE be extra careful with any food you are transporting out of refrigeration until this heat wave breaks. I wouldn’t want ANYONE to experience what I went through in the last 18 hours!
Oh, poor leenie17. Food poisoning is tough. Been there, done that (though never with chicken parm, I don’t eat meat or dairy). You’re absolutely right about this. I have a little insulated lunch bag that I can put in the freezer (to cool whatever’s between the walls) and some frozen cold packs. I’ve been taking said lunch bag with me on those rare occasions I eat at restaurants, so my leftovers won’t spoil before I get them home. If it ever happens to you again, make ginger tea (of either fresh or dried ginger) or peppermint tea (spearmint works, too).
We’re in the same heat wave in NYC, and my (old) A/C keeps shutting off. Time for a new air conditioner, but I can’t shop for it till the heat wave ends. Health and peace. Stay safe, mudpups.
Thanks for the tips. That’s a great idea to bring an insulated lunch bag. I have a couple of them that I use for school as well as some little ice packs that I always keep in the freezer, so it would be easy to bring one along if I expect to bring home leftovers.
My mother used to cook with ginger a lot and, unless it’s in cookies, it tend to make me gag so that would definitely not help at all! I do, however, have some peppermint tea in the kitchen so I’ll have to remember that, but hopefully I won’t need to resort to that any time soon! I have been munching on an occasional spearmint life saver today and that seems to be helping too, along with my regular tea.
So far, so good tonight… 🙂
I was only 8 when the moon landing occurred and I remember sitting on the living room floor with my eyes glued to the TV. I just couldn’t figure out how they got the live video from the moon without some REALLY long wires!
I also remember going outside the next night and looking at the moon to see if I could spot the astronauts. (I was a little iffy on the technological aspects of looking at something that far away!)
Such sweet memories!
As it’s edging on 100 degrees in Bflo and this is an open thread – I’m going to share the story that’s unfolding in my driveway because….well …. I just don’t feel like doing anything else right now .
Some of you know that I recently moved in to a downstairs apartment and that my upstairs neighbors are quite possibly the loudest family on the planet. From morning to night, it’s almost beyond belief. If Saturday Night Live were to do a skit EXACTLY recreating any given Monday , it would be seen as over the top. And, not only are the two young adults and their toddler freakishly loud but they have no sense of boundaries, whatsoever. They have their loud friends and family over on a near daily basis, partying in the driveway and sharing e v e r y detail about their lives , right under my living room window.
So – a few moments ago, this was the conversation :
” So , Mom – You know Amanda wants to move back in with you, right ? ”
” Well she can move back in but she’s going to be drug tested daily. I mean, I’m 42 years old so
I know how to deal with my drugs and can choose that but, she’s 17 and that’s not right ”
” The other day her and her boyfriend were here and he was snorting something that made him
crazy. He totally believed he was Mr. Potato Head. He put a bucket on his head and started
running around yelling, ” Get outta my way, NOW ! ” He kept running his bucket head into the
garage. ”
” Now see? I’m not having any stoned Mr. Potato Head over at my house. That bucket would put a hole in my kitchen wall and who’s gonna pay for that ? ”
The really weird thing is that they had nearly this same conversation yesterday .
I wouldn’t mind so much “the loud” if I got to see things like the Mr. Potato Head incident.
That would make up for a lot !
So funny (from a distance). My sympathies about your upstairs neighbors. Our daughter just moved out of an apartment where she could every thing in the apartments to her side and overhead – and I mean everything. When she was on Skype with us, they’d hit the walls saying she was too loud (she has a soft voice). Sometimes while talking with us, we’d heard some rather unusual sounds, and she’d just shrug, saying “oh, that. That’s the neighbor (to the left or right side or above) having sex. I guess they are having a really, really good time.” Sigh. Too much information. Glad she’s left that place.
Still, nothing tops your Mr. Potato Head conversations. If you ever see like that, take photos or a short video and share, share, share. Take care. May those folks move soon – very, very soon.
Just for fun:
http://bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2011/07/senator-franken-kicks-assneck.html
Wasn’t that a treat?
Why experience in show biz pays off – he’s got the lines and the timing down cold.
Yes, it was a treat. Too bad we don’t have many more like him.
I love that guy! Wish he represented me! Thanks for the link.
Confession Time: I never could figure out what all the hoopla over Laika the dog (USSR) and Ham the chimp (US) going up into space was all about… I listened, afterall, to the Adventures of Buck Rogers on the Armed Forces Radio Network every afternoon after school, so what was the big deal about these couple of pets going up in rocketships in the early ’60s? Sheesh! [I’m not a very smart man…]
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The summer of ’69, I was 19, a rising college junior, and travelling with my just-graduated HS sister through Europe. (Anyone remember the “Europe on $5 a Day” books?) We were in Paris for 4 days and had met up with a friend of a friend — a Marine Security Guard attached to the US Embassy, there. He invited us over to the Marine House to watch the landing on their TV, and we were more than happy to go!
They had a ginormously monsterous console TV set up in the Rec Room of the gorgeous old Parisian mansion they called home…and the TV picked *that* day, of all days, to conk out! With a whole bunch of tin foil and wire coat hangers positioned ‘just so’, they were able to get sound, but no matter what they jiggled or jaggled, they couldn’t get a picture!
We all –two-dozen Marines, my sister, and I– sat staring at the black-screened TV in absolute awe and breath-held silence as our minds visioned the narration. It was perfect! Good, no, Excellent, times!
Thanks for triggering a fond and wonderful memory, AKM. beth.
While it was wonderful to remember and honor the moon landing and walk, it also brings to mind the anger and sadness I felt when, during the Bush-Cheney administration, the military was given a bigger role in NASA. That tainted the youthful innocence and enthusiasm created during the early decades of space exploration for me.
Now, the end of the shuttle program brings new sadness as we hear of plans to privatize the shuttle program. Thousands of people losing their jobs with NASA, few finding employment with those private companies, and a lapse of at least a couple of years before corporate America is ready to launch again.
I know the space program has slowly been infiltrated by the military and corporate development of discoveries necessary for the safety and well-being of astronauts. We’ve benefited from satellite surveillance (a mixed blessing), satellite communications, lightweight metallic blankets for camping, Tang (which I drank by the gallons as a child because of its origin with the space program but haven’t touched since – do they still make it?), even transistors and computer development can be traced to the space program. No small wonder corporations have been lobbying to gain control of the program. They’ve benefited from the research and development (and in many cases were intimately involved in it to begin with), but now they will have unprecedented control of its direction and impact.
I do not mean to vilify corporations as a whole, but I do prefer more oversight as regards sensitive materials, product development, and exploration of space – even just interference in our atmosphere. I think many of us remember proposals under Bush-Cheney to allow corporations to do advertising in the nighttime sky.
How many of us had our imaginations stirred by the early days of space exploration? Millions, I’m sure. What do our children have today that propels them to study science and math other than a desire to obtain a higher income? Not that there is anything wrong in wanting such or encouraging children to set goals for economic achievement per se, but where is the genuine thrill of amazement, of wonder and hope in that kind of goal?
I guess we were lucky to be amongst the last generations to feel the thrill of the unknown for its own sake.
Thank you, AKM, for stirring remembrances both positive and melancholy (a useful state for alternate perspectives), and for commemorating what the MSM seems to be only giving a slight mention, but deserves attention.
My challenge to other mudpups: what products do you remember arising from the space program other than Tang, the metallic blankets, transistors (both for radios and computers), satellites and dehydrated foods?
oops – when I say transistors and satellites – I mean the miniaturization of such.
For example, I remember when computers took an entire building to house, when radios had to be on shelves or in cabinets – and the thrill it was when we finally could afford to buy a radio we could carry around in our hands (let alone in our pockets).
In college, I remember the class laughing our at our cartography professor when he stated that “one day soon you will be able to buy an advanced calculator for under a hundred dollars).
All of these innovations and hundreds more truly have their roots in the space program launched by President Kennedy’s pledge to put a man on the moon. I am just intrigued to see how long a list of products and innovations that revolutionized our lives, mostly for the better.
Oh – and all the medical technology necessary to monitor the astronauts save millions of lives now, right?
“Spinoff is NASA’s annual premier publication featuring successfully commercialized NASA technology. For more than 40 years, NASA has facilitated the transfer of its technology to the private sector, benefiting global competition and the economy.”
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/
Thanks for that link! I wasn’t aware of its existence.
Wow. Thanks, Scout. I really appreciate the link.
Well said. As a young child, I sent away for the PR kit about the Mercury astronauts: 8×10 glossies, etc. I was 15 for the moon landing (had been for about three weeks). I’ve long been concerned about the corporations taking over space exploration. Remember how these concerns were expressed in the movie Fight Club? The MicroSoft Galaxy. Planet Starbucks. I hope that’s not where we’re headed, and am concerned about brilliant people at NASA losing their jobs. I’m also concerned that NASA’s monitoring capabilities (particularly regarding climate change, where it assists NOAA with observations) of changes on our planet might remain hidden, to the detriment of all.
I had Tang once. I thought it tasted like a chemical cocktail, and never drank it again.
storage battery , solar , LED technology, any more? Tang is still sold.
I spent many years working in recreation and sports for athletes with physical disabilities. Many of the discoveries made in the aerospace industry revolutionized adaptive equipment, particularly for wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs. Miniaturization, new lightweight but strong materials (such as titanium), advances in engineering and design…all were used to improve assistive equipment.
Not only did they make these pieces of equipment more efficient for competitive sports, but drastically improved everyday life for people who use these devices.
Ah, I should have known. I have a titanium hip replacement. It’s great (so far, knock on wood, hehe).
Auni @ 4
It sounds like it might have been Gov Perry from Texas. I heard his “numbers” don’t add up.
Doesn’t have a balanced budget —-or balanced anything in my opinion. He is also the one who called the statue of Liberty a “false idol”. He is what I would call a right right right right conseravitve.
I was 20. We all watched it at my parent’s house and I remember my brother frantically trying to hook his reel-to-reel tape recorder up to the audio of the TV so he could record it. Ha, my mom wasn’t sure she really believed it was real.
Still not time to let our guard down with respect to Palin especially after a new poll shows her in second place to Romney–and she isn’t even running…yet:
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/07/palin-.html
Guess I am the oldest in the crowd. I was 40 years old! Whew
I received a power point last night with Astronaut Wheelock pics. Amazing—beautiful
I don’t do twitter, but am told one can follow Wheelock on twitter.
Astronaut Wheelock Pics @ Astro Douglas H. Wheelock
I remember it clearly. I grew up on a farm in rural Zimbabwe. I was 16. I went out the back of the house to talk to the rural Africans assembled around the fire and told them that there were men on the moon, this created an enormous amount of chatter and amusement. When I asked what was wrong one man asked how could this be ….the moon was too small to walk on. It put everything into perspective…..
My Grandmother did not believe the moon landing was real…she insisted that it was all filmed in Hollywood. She held to that belief until the day she died. We gave up arguing with her…..there was no changing the old gal’s mind.
Attagirl – my Irish Nana also believed that the moon landing was all filmed in Hollywood. Of course, she also insisted that the sun went around the earth. She almost had us convinced!
Ironically, I was at a workshop learning to spin. What a contradiction – spinning and landing on the moon!
My dad believed that it wasn’t real either he claimed it was filmed out west.
I was 10 and we listened on a transistor radio. No TV until later that day because we (most of the family) were actually on a small island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca putting bird bands on baby Glaucous Winged Gulls for migration studies. We spent the entire day out there, and lunch was conveniently around the time of the landing. Nothing like being surrounded by something like 20,000 screaming gulls to remember an event, but as a kid during the Mercury, Gemini, and the Apollo flights this was the piece de resistance!
Kind of an odd thing to be doing, yes, but then we weren’t terribly ‘normal’ at times. Still aren’t. 🙂
How can a moment, whose memory is so vivid still, have been 42 years ago?
Thanks for the reminder!
As only military satellites flew over Alaska at that time, our normal newscasts were still being taped on the West Coast, then flown north for later replay. Thanks to local station owners negotiating with the military and our congressional delegation, the moon landing was Alaska’s first satellite broadcast, allowing us to watch in awe simultaneous with the rest of the country. Working a summer job with US Fish and Wildlife, I was thrilled when Nixon declared a national holiday, so I could stay home transfixed to our grainy black-and-white TV.
I was 16. It seemed as if so much was happening then! Space, the final frontier, was opening up. Make love, not war. Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll. Then Nixon, Watergate, Deep Throat. Quite a coming of age. By the time I was 20, I’d seen more change in those few years than I’ve seen since. The chasm between optimistic awe and pessimistic skepticism continues to haunt me.
I was with my grandparents. We watched, and I had no idea how significant that moment was. We watched the landing, then we played a game of yatzee and talked about the next week’s trip to town. The moon landing was news outside of their world. They were educated people, but they had their limits. They tended to put everything into context. That world view created a very safe place for me, but the fact that they were educated, gave me the ability to exercise my curiousity.
It was the first live TV that I recall in Anchorage. I still have a copy of the Anchorage Times from that day.
I worked for Sperry Electronic Tube Division and our tubes went to the moon! We were able, on a clear day, to watch the take-offs rom the plant. That particular day, my husband’s boss and his family had invited my family over for a cookout at the lake, and we watched in awe at the landing.
Like Teprsichore said “Thanks for the memories!”
WOW. I thought I was the only one that saved newspapers.
supposed to have been a reply to Gol3ig.
Sperry?? Haven’t heard that name in years! Obviously, you worked in a division in Florida, but there was also a big plant in NY.
My grandmother’s farm was across the street from the plant in Lake Success, on Long Island. Both of my parents grew up within spitting distance of Sperry and they would tell me stories about the barrage balloons that were flown above the complex during WWII to protect it from air attacks, since they were an important source of the gyroscopes used in military planes. Some of the buildings in the complex were used as the original site of the United Nations while they were building the headquarters in Manhattan. My grandfather worked as a caretaker in the buildings during the winter when he wasn’t farming. When they moved the UN to NYC, they dismantled the secure rooms that they used for negotiations and were throwing piles of acoustical tiles out. My grandfather brought some home and my father used them as ceiling tiles in our basement. I often wondered what secrets those tiles would share of they could talk!
The people who worked at Sperry were an important part of so many of our country’s technological advancements. Thanks for bringing back some nice memories for me!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Success,_New_York
Leenie – yep, that was our parent company in NY! I worked at Sperry Electronic Tube Division in Gainesville FL, and there was another division in Clearwater, FL, Sperry Gyroscope. A lot of our Management type guys came from the Lake Success plant.
I remember answering the phone on day at work, and my boss’s wife had a message for him:
Please tell Tony Julie had the baby (forget which sex!). “Julie” was Julius La Rosa, a good friend of his. Remember him and how bad he got treated by Arthur Godfrey?
I was a student nurse in London, didn’t get the day off. Watched it in black and white on our ratty old TV in the ghastly basement flat I shared with nine (yes 9) other student nurses.
Here is a link to the Julie – Arthur Godfrey thing
http://www.yourememberthat.com/media/6099/Arthur_Godfrey_Fires_Julius_LaRosa/
Oh dear gawd, Biskit has changed her Facebook profile pic with a truly terrible picture of Tripp!
By the way, she’s going by “Bristol Bay” on FB now. Nothing visible except the thumbnail pic.
When I saw the thumbnail, I thought it was an elderly woman…. but no, it’s little Tripp! The poor child has inherited the unfortunate receding chin shared by his Grampa Chuckles and his Mamma.
I cannot figure out how you folks embed pics with your comments, so I’ll paste in the website pic. However, it could be changed by the time you see it! I’ll save it to my hard drive just in case!!!
Andrea
I was five, and because I was only five, I went “cool, man on moon” as if it were “cool, man on top of mountain”. First generation, probably, that grew up thinking space travel was normal.
So it was I had a little sadness hearing about the end of the shuttle program. I understand they are going to do rockets again.
Went to Kennedy Space Center just before the launch of the Endeavor, and I still marvel at those little capsules, and think “we put human beings in there, stuck ’em on top or a hunkin’ great powerful rocket, and shot them into outer space”.
And we got them back.
Frogmen! I remember the Frogmen!
Thanks for the memories …
I had just finished 8th grade. We watched at a friend’s house because they had a better TV. Come to think of it, we didn’t have one then. It broke and my sister’s grades went up, so my parents refused to have it fixed.
I loved watching the moon landing. I almost felt like I was there. It was thrilling to think what we’d accomplished. We can do anything when we set our minds to it. I wish we’d set our minds to something now.
Thanks for the memories, AKM
I was 19 going on 20 at the time. My mother and I watched all the coverage, fascinated by it all. That was the summer I was getting ready for my junior year at the University of Kansas, having just finished my two years at junior college in Garden City.
This inspire me to watch so much footage. James Burke’s related coverage for the BBC was a fun find. 🙂
I’m sorry, I forgot to say, “thank you!”
Did anyone catch the interview that Andrea Mitchell did on MSNBC today, or yesterday, with a Republican gov from some state bragging about having a balanced budget? Trailer along the bottom said he had received stimulus money and was wrecking state employees pensions. I need to know who he was—anyone???
If I remember correctly, that was the Governor of Virginia. Sorry, don’t remember his name, but I did see something on facebook too about the stimulus money and rescinded pensions. Google probably has something on the guy..
I remember it so well. I was a sophomore in high school ( summer between 9th and 10th grade). I was glued to our tv and at the time I couldn’t believe I was watching it live. I knew even then I was seeing an amazing and historic event LIVE on our Color TV (that was a big deal too then!). What an amazing thing to witness. It made me believe our civilization could achieve so much. I still hold that hope this many years later.
Thanks for this post. Indeed, Happy Moon day. I hope we can get our space program back on track soon.
so cool you mentioned the color. i went to our next-door neighbor’s house to watch in color. until her death in 1980 my mother refused color.
I would love to know why. That has to be interesting.
i can’t even remember why – she was just stubborn. i think she insisted that the picture was better in black and white or something…
I remember. I was in awe. The most incredible happenings. It was magic. It was science. It was us. I sent about 48 pictures to my cousin who was in Viet Nam. He has them to this day.
Yes, I was around. It was quite a time. Personally, I was more concerned about bringing our soldiers home from Vietnam, where I didn’t think they belonged. What does that remind me of? Oh, yes. Iraq. Afghanistan. Etc.
Health and peace.