Apollo 11 50-year Anniversay

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Started today. One can view the archive launch footage at various places, e.g.

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Gets interesting ~ 3 hours, 10 min in.

Pretty cool to hear Walter Cronkite again and to recall the launch/mission memories of an 8 year old science geek kid at Keesler AFB in Biloxi MS (somewhat ironically only a few weeks before hurricane Camille).
 
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Just adding that Michael Collins is on Instagram "Astromichaelcollins" for those of you that wanna see what the dudes are up to. Yes, he's the forgotten Apollo 11 guy. Buzz Aldrin used to be on but seems hasnt been seeing eye-to-eye with his family and handlers lately.

And many of the astronauts for decades trained in Celestial Navigation right here in North Carolina at the Morehead Planetarium. Including Mister Collins.

BTW for the extra geeky among you, the NASA archives have the original transcripts of such things as the Apollo 11 de-briefings and other juicy Apollo stuff that the mainstream public is too lazy to seek out.
 
GreatGazoo said:
Started today. One can view the archive launch footage at various places, e.g.

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Gets interesting ~ 3 hours, 10 min in.

Pretty cool to hear Walter Cronkite again and to recall the launch/mission memories of an 8 year old science geek kid at Keesler AFB in Biloxi MS (somewhat ironically only a few weeks before hurricane Camille).
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Thanks for sharing. Great stuff. BTW, I'm in Biloxi tomorrow through Saturday.
 
I guess I need to watch this. 50 years ago I was at the Boy Scout National Jamboree in Farragut State Park, Idaho. Spent 3 weeks out there with 33,000 other Scouts. Missed every bit of the television coverage of the moon landing.

Side note, I have no idea who paid for my trip. All I was told was there was a businessman who thought I deserved to go. We were pretty much middle class, nothing we needed that we didn't have. Mom and dad and my scout master are all gone now so I guess I'll never know who paid my way.

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It's funny. It cost the U.S. $25.4 billion (1961 - 1973) for the Apollo program. Which is $153 billion in 2018. Drop in the bucket today figuring Obama gave that much in cash on a pallet to one of our enemy's.
 
Fond memories of a 10 yr old kid who dug anything to do with space. I've been enjoying all the stuff on tv including lame-0 Ryan Gosling movie last night. Interesting article on today's N&O front page about non believers. I have a shooting buddy in his 70's who remains skeptical.
 
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