50 Years Ago Today, the USA demonstrated what unity and purpose can do

[Roccus7]

Too bad we've turned into a bunch of name-calling, self-interest whiners, no longer able to compromise for the common good...

 

[CELLFISH]

40,000 peeps were needed to get this rocket ? goin... cellie...
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[wader]

with less technology than what's in today's average calculator or so I recall hearing/reading...............

The computer which landed Apollo 11 on the Moon was about as powerful as a contemporary pocket calculator

 

[Avenger]

40,000 peeps were needed to get this rocket ? goin... cellie...
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My old man was one of them. Did environmental test on the reaction control system of the LM. So they could be confident that every time they moved the stick those tiny rockets would fire in the heat and cold of space and move the spacecraft the way they wanted it to go. Every single time.

 

[jpd]

Sad, but not surprising

American kids would much rather be YouTubers than astronauts

 

[CELLFISH]

Im watching Astronaut Michael Collins onda news. He was the engineer who was in orbit from da mother ship while his buds were getting some footprints ? onda Moon, boy, what great looking men in their prime then and 50 years later now, WoW, , time marches on... cellie...

 

[CELLFISH]

40,000 peeps were needed to get this rocket ? goin... cellie...
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correction: 400,000 peeps were needed for this project, 400,000...

 

[CELLFISH]

Buzz Aldrin socks a denier... cellie...

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[CELLFISH]

VP Pence honoring Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, giving me chills besides being drunk, it’s great to be an American of the United States ??... cellie...

 

[CELLFISH]

the United States ?? is the great innovator, not those other mofoes and fakers.. cellie...

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[jpd]

Still have my button from when I was a proud 6 year old American ?

 

[wader]

it was damn impressive to watch first hand as they stepped out onto the lunar surface - whole family & a couple of neighbors standing around the TV

 

[Roccus7]

Buzz Aldrin socks a denier... cellie...

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Gotta love Buzz

 

[CELLFISH]

Still have my button from when I was a proud 6 year old American ?

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I’m 7 years olda than u... cellie... ??

 

[wader]

I'm older than both of you - I was 17 at the time..........


do I win anything?

 

[WhatKnot]

I'm older than both of you - I was 17 at the time..........


do I win anything?

And I was 20. Incredible effort put into that project, especially with the available ‘technology’.

 

[CELLFISH]

I'm older than both of you - I was 17 at the time..........


do I win anything?

 

[CELLFISH]

And I was 20. Incredible effort put into that project, especially with the available ‘technology’.

Yeah . They say the common Laptop computer is powerful many times over than what they had then... cellie...

 

[Avenger]

A musical greeting card probably has more processing power than the computers aboard the spacecraft.

I'm so in awe of what they accomplished with the things they had to work with. Honestly I'm incredibly offended by all these @$$hats that claim it was fake. Probably the greatest single event in human history and the care and effort of hundreds of thousands of people reduced to a "TV show" by people who couldn't find their @$$ with both hands.

Just a monumental failure of our society and education system. What a shame, the heights we've fallen from.

 

[Capt13]

I was 11 ......... the impression on me was life changing. It defined the direction of my life. I attended Georgia Tech and
graduated with degree's in Aerospace Engineering and Physics.

Just a monumental failure of our society and education system. What a shame, the heights we've fallen from.

Yes Avenger, that has happened and I have no Idea how we could possibly fix it.