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  1. Edelman

    Edelman Well-Known Member

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    Has anybody watched this,this week ?
    It's really good .
    It's the original CBS coverage with some new acting mixed in .
    Well worth a watch on I player .
     
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    Yes, was excellent. It's amazing how everything went so well in such a difficult mission. I still have a few blown-up photos I took off the telly once they had stepped out of the LEM. Amazing bit of live history (delayed slightly by the speed of light !).
     
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    I was 4 then so don't remember that .
    I do remember my uncles Apollo 11 airfix model at the same time though
     
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    Young fella it seems.
    Apparently there'll be lots of coverage ( news - both current & historical) on BBC News channel next week and likely a few documentaries on the standard Beeb channels. Have to admit, the space program ( USSR & US) was a brilliant era in technological endeavor I'm glad I was present for. Pity money seems to have run out a bit in recent decades, but there a much more pressing issues closer to home to spend money (& effort) on.
     
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    There's a lot more being spent than we realise .
    I watched the sky at night about the moon on I player the other day and was surprised by it !
     
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    There's been a few Apollo programmes on the Smithsonian channel in the past week .
    Some really good info !:emoticon-0148-yes:
     
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    NASA's budget is less than half a percent of the US federal budget, it's a drop in the ocean, and the money they do get has been largely squandered for 15 years developing a rocket that will be obsolete by the time it leaves the pad. The whole moon mission was conceived, constructed and achieved in only 10 years. By comparison, the US spends over $620 billion on the military to NASA's $20 billion. In fact in 2011, America spent more on air conditioning for their troops than NASA's entire budget. Unfortunately there just isn't the public or political support for NASA that there once was and now that there are emerging innovative launch companies like SpaceX, perhaps it's time for NASA to get out of the launch game altogether and concentrate on payloads and habitats.
     
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    50 ****ing years.
     
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    Not sure that's gonna happen with China now in the game !
    May well be a new space race starting ;
     
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    I hope so. I wouldn't bet against China having boots on the moon before America, either.
     
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    Yes I agree the Chinese government isn't anywhere near answerable !
     
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    The US military are income generating though ...
     
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    Or should that be incoming generating?
     
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    If any part of this 1960's episode of "The Sky at Night" was referenced, about 8:33 in Patrick Moore talks to Dr Gilbert Fielder, who was our physics teacher at Kingston HS when I was there. the school had it's own observatory which pupils could use occasionally, and that exposure was what got me interested in all things astronomical, cosmological, space exploration etc.

     
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    About 7:50 in, Dara is walking & describing the gantry arm which leads to the "White Room", the last place the astronauts arrive before embarking on the ship.

    Wonder if there's any connection to my favourite Cream number...I must check it out !

     
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    I read recently that it was possible that the first man on the moon could have met the man who made the first powered flight. Neil Armstrong was 17 when Orville Wright died.

    It just shows the pace of technology. The stone axe didn't change for over a mllion years.
     
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    I think the thread title should countdown, its no longer 8 days to the anniversary.
     
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    Area 51 has a lot to answer for.
     
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