Thereafter, the panels were discarded and drifted away on their own courses. One such panel was the likely cause of some minor concern/curiosity on Apollo 11 – a few hours after the panels were discarded, the crew noticed a blinking light. After reporting its direction, they asked Mission Control if they were looking at the S-IVB, and were told they weren’t. It was almost certainly one of these panels that they saw.

I started blogging about them last year:
http://thoughtcrimewave.blogspot.com/search/label/Alice

Hopefully, we will get a look at the other three S-IV impact sites before too long.

Another better link for Giordano Bruno & the anniversary of his execution is this one :

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jtAf4zZvxa7lsBFfN50pziEfjctg

@ 29. MadScientist & @ 31. Dave Child Says:

“Thus none of the Apollo 13 trio (or quartet!) ever landed on the Moon which I find kinda sad.” [me # 5.] I wish I had the chance to do 1/10th of the stuff they got to do!! I would have been happy to be part of ANY of the manned flights, Mercury through the Shuttle flights. In the days after the Challenger, I told people that if they had rolled out another Shuttle the next day, I would have been in line to ride it! Life is a risk (just ask the dude who got whacked by that plane doing the emergency landing on the beach – oh, wait; he’s dead), but the people who built the machines did their best to build a zero-fault machine! Given the number of parts in each of the vehicles, it’s a wonder more didn’t end in death!
I don’t feel sorry for those guys! They’re in the records for all time!!

Fair enough – I certainly see where you’re coming from there.

@ 13. B Sandberg Says:

So, suggestions for a name? I suggest “Haise”, unless it’s already been used.

Good idea – I second that suggestion.

I actually watched the first moon landing

I suspect a reasonable number of the readers here watched, it was only 41 years ago! I myself watched, as a child. And fell asleep (it was past my bedtime), but I do remember Armstrong descending the ladder and other earlier parts of the walks.

My parents bought our first (and as it turns out, only) ever TV specifically for the occasion. (We weren’t poor, it just that my parents thought TV was absurd—I tend to agree, and have never owned one.) I was glued to the TV for essentially all of the Apollo missions, and also closely followed them in the newspaper (as you might imagine, in a formerly TV-less house there was a lot of reading and reading materials….)