Anybody else get into the Apollo missions and all the space race stuff Came to mind with all that's going on in the news about Russia right now.
Apollo &1st Earthrise, 1968
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I always got excited when Apollo flights made history. I remember the first Earthrise pictures from the first orbits around the Moon by Apollo 8 in 1968.
Anybody else get into the Apollo missions and all the space race stuff Came to mind with all that's going on in the news about Russia right now.
Anybody else get into the Apollo missions and all the space race stuff Came to mind with all that's going on in the news about Russia right now.
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Right Freddy. That funding brought big stuff and accomplishments that came with it. It was born out of competition and because we were getting spanked in the space accomplishment race by the Russians. Now we seem to be all about banks and borders. Robots are doing it all without risking much more than $s. They don't brig the WOW! moments home quite the same way humans do. Wonder what China will do?
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The Apollo missions did more to accelerate technology than anything else in history. I was just born in 68 so I don't remember seeing any of it live but I followed the Space shuttles closely. I stayed home from school in 1986 and remember the challenger disaster like it was yesterday. Thanks for posting I would give my left ( well you now ) to see an earth rise in person.
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The space shuttle was a technological achievement but was way too complicated. Built by people in bunny suits in a clean room. The Saturn V was built in a ship yard by guys in hard hats. Seems the heavy lift rocket they're working on now is moving back to a big, dumb rocket that works.
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Was that filmed in New Mexico, Arizona or Nevada?
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Well I wasn't alive during the Saturn V days and I hate reruns so the shuttle had to do. I did like reruns of Barbara Eden in I dream of jennie that was based on the Saturn V days so I guess that will do .Carbon12 wrote:The space shuttle was a technological achievement but was way too complicated. Built by people in bunny suits in a clean room. The Saturn V was built in a ship yard by guys in hard hats. Seems the heavy lift rocket they're working on now is moving back to a big, dumb rocket that works.
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I lived on Long Island in those days. In the 60's and early 70's, you couldn't swing a stick without hitting someone who worked for Grumman, or their many subcontractors involved in the space program.
In the mid 70's I was working in the Nassau County Museum system. We stored our vehicles in the same storage building the museum system used to house all the air & Space collections. I got to spend many lunch hours eating lunch while inside one of the original Grumman Lunar landers (LM), or the training mockups of the LM and an Apollo command capsule, and the Grumman proto type of a lunar rover. All of which are now on display at the Nassau County's Cradle of Aviation museum.
https://www.cradleofaviation.org/welcome.html
It's a bit scary to sit crammed into one of those things and think about those guys who spent days closed up in them, tens of thousands of miles from earth.
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In the mid 70's I was working in the Nassau County Museum system. We stored our vehicles in the same storage building the museum system used to house all the air & Space collections. I got to spend many lunch hours eating lunch while inside one of the original Grumman Lunar landers (LM), or the training mockups of the LM and an Apollo command capsule, and the Grumman proto type of a lunar rover. All of which are now on display at the Nassau County's Cradle of Aviation museum.
https://www.cradleofaviation.org/welcome.html
It's a bit scary to sit crammed into one of those things and think about those guys who spent days closed up in them, tens of thousands of miles from earth.
Paul
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Sunny Boy, that was a very special place to work. I sure would've enjoyed doing something similar back in the day. I recall as a young team visiting some place that had an Apollo capsule mockup. I remember climbing around in it but it sure couldn't beat having lunch in the real McCoy!
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Dang Flyer, you are a youngen, I was helping a good friend, long gone, move a large 70's era stereo into his house, when we turned on the tv and watched the Challenger go boom. Never forget it. And I was in my single digit years watching on a grainy black and white when the Apollo missions were on. But we were electrified by it.
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Born in 68KLook wrote:Dang Flyer, you are a youngen, I was helping a good friend, long gone, move a large 70's era stereo into his house, when we turned on the tv and watched the Challenger go boom. Never forget it. And I was in my single digit years watching on a grainy black and white when the Apollo missions were on. But we were electrified by it.
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It gave me a better understanding of what the pioneers of aviation went through.VigIIPeaBurner wrote:Sunny Boy, that was a very special place to work. I sure would've enjoyed doing something similar back in the day. I recall as a young team visiting some place that had an Apollo capsule mockup. I remember climbing around in it but it sure couldn't beat having lunch in the real McCoy!
The museum has Jimmy Stewart's Ryan, the sister ship to Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. It was one of three used in the making of the movie with Jimmy Stewart playing Lindbergh, and is still converted to look exactly like the Spirit.
You don't realize how fragile that thing is, that first flew across the Atlantic, until you sit in one and see your only surrounded by a thin metal tube framing, with one layer of fabric wrapped around it, while your sitting in a fraile wicker basket seat. And to make maters worse, there's a big gas tank between the gauges and the motor blocking all forward view. Plus, the fabric on the wings was only held on with new, never tried before, experimental cement coated nails.
I was nervous just sitting in it while it was on the ground. And I was told those Ryans were not easy to fly. Even though Jimmy Stewart's was a later production model Ryan that had a longer wing then Lindbergh's, a Grumman test pilot still stalled and crashed it in ideal conditions trying to land it after a test flight. Yet, even though Ryan offered to make the main wing longer and safer before Lindbergh left, Lindy said no thanks, it would help keep him awake !
Scared stiff with terror would keep me awake for 33 hours too !
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