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50th Anniversary Of The Moon Landing

Gingerbread Demon

Gingerbread Demon

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How are you going to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Moon landing?

For me watching some things on TV related to that. Sunday here in Australia is the 21st but for you guys in the States it's the 20th so we'll probably get something on TV either then or on Saturday evening.

Also a model of the lunar module to make.
 
I live alone with my dog and my dog is too young to remember it. So, I will just sit an ponder on what an amazing accomplishment it was. I still have the memory of it. Even my 5 year old self knew it was amazing.
 
I'll probably watch the Mad Men episode "Waterloo," in which everybody sits in front of the TV mesmerized by the moon landing broadcast.

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Kor
 
I was thinking about watching my FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON DVD set, but I watched that back in January and I'm in no big hurry to revisit it again. Same with my DVD of THE FIRST MAN. I watched that when the disk came out a month or two ago.

Seeing as how I turn 50 nine months from now, I might just skip all the moon stuff and celebrate the 50th anniversary of my conception, which should have been July 17th, so I guess I missed it.
 
I was 3 at the time, and remember it like it was yesterday

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https://archive.org/stream/10.56.20...10.56.20-PM-7-20-69-CBS-Moon-Landing_djvu.txt

ABC did nice simulations of the LEM coming down
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An interesting book on the subject of space
https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/touch-face-god
 
I was ten, almost eleven, and I had a few thoughts at the time:

1) Why isn't this in COLOR? (We had a new color TV). I hate black and white.

2) There must be tumbleweeds rolling down the street. Because everyone is inside watching this. (I lived in S. California at the time)

3) This is HISTORY (caps for the emphasis as I felt it was HISTORY, not history). I will probably never see anything more important than this in my life. I'll be telling my kids and grandkids about it.

Those were my exact thoughts.

Mum was a big fan of the space program so I got to see it on TV from my earliest years.

I'm watching various moon and anniversary specials as they air and I have more on the DVR.
 
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Apollo 11 is still impressive...
 
IT IS an impressive achievement. Kudos 10 billion times over for everyone who made this possible. My child self though always did wonder why we're not more in space as humans and that was me at 14 thinking about this stuff. Back then I had models of rockets and all the space capsules.
 
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