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By: skepdad » Blog Archive » See A Rocket… (Thing #49)

skepdad » Blog Archive » See A Rocket… (Thing #49) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:14:03 +0000

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By: Laurel Kornfeld

Laurel Kornfeld — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:13:07 +0000

You are so lucky to be able to remember the first moon landing and to have been present for the launch of Apollo 15. I was four at the time of the first moon landing and unfortunately, I remember absolutely nothing. My parents say they watched it but cannot remember if I did too. It’s really annoying to know I was here and yet have no memory of such an important event. I do have a memory of watching a later Apollo launch, which had to be Apollo 17, since it was after we moved from an apartment to a house in September 1972.

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Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:48 +0000

[...] over the past week I could not settle on a suitable title. It wasn’t until I read Phil Plait’s post on what Apollo means to him that the title came to me. Thank you, Phil, for your great post and for inspiring the title of [...]

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Post Apollo « Masks of Eris — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:07:47 +0000

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By: We Went to the Moon, and that is AWESOME - Advocation.me

We Went to the Moon, and that is AWESOME - Advocation.me — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:29:04 +0000

[...] week marked the 40th anniversary of man landing on the moon. That is so cool. Really, just stop and think about that for a minute. That thing up in the [...]

By: johno

johno — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:36:55 +0000

I was 13 at the time. Remember walking out in the back yard, looking up at the moon, and thinking – there are people up there now.

What left the greatest impression on me was Apollo 8. Was listening to the broadcast of their show while they were orbiting the moon – I never missed an Apollo broadcast – and when they started reading from Genesis, it seemed so… perfect. I’m not particularly religious, certainly wasn’t then, but at the tender age of 12, that moved me. It underlined what great things we were doing then. To read the behind the scenes stories now, I’m even more amazed at the problems they solved.

Those were exciting times, when we took on great tasks to advance humanity. “We do these things because they are hard”