[GeoStL] Re: NGR-Apollo 11 anniversary
- From: "Steve Bromley" <bromley@xxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:01:13 -0500
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Most of these were well kept secrets at the time. I still
remember the time well. TV shows were preempted for space
flight coverage.
I was sitting in computer school (right out of high-school)
and they rolled in a TV so that we could watch what was
going on. It was a 'very big' deal then and still is 'to me
anyway'. These guys were and still are my heros. They were
at 17, and still are at 57.
This year is sort of my anniversary also, because it was 40
years ago this year that I wrote my first computer program.
I still can remember the words as they were broadcast ".....
the Eagle has landed." and when Armstrong made his "One
small step" statement.
Life was much simpler back then.
----- Original Message Follows -----
From: Bob TheCacher <cachefinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: NGR-Apollo 11 anniversary
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:30:14 -0500
>Here is a few facts about the Apollo 11 mission you
>probably didn't know about:
>
>
>
>1 The computers had less processing power than a
>cellphone.
>
>2. Drinking water was a fuel-cell by-product, but Apollo
>11's hydrogen-gas filters didn't work, making every dring
>bubbly.
>
>3. One astronaut spent his entire mission on anti-diarrha
>drug because they didn't have "zero gravity" toilets yet.
>
>4. When Apollo 11's lunar lander, the Eagle, separated
>from the orbiter, the cabin wasn't fully depressurized,
>resulting in a burst of gas equivalent to popping a
>champagne cork. It threw the module's landing 4 miles
>off-target.
>
>5. Pilot Neil Armstrong nearly ran out of fuel landing the
>Eagle, and many at mission control worried he might crash.
>
>6. The "One small step for man" wasn't actually that
>small. Armstrong set the ship down so gently that its
>shock absorbers didn't compress and lock down. He had to
>hop 3.5 feet from the Eagle's ladder to the surface.
>
>7. When Buzz Aldrin joined Armstrong on the surface, he
>had to make sure not to lock the Eagle's door because ther
>was no outside handle.
>
>8.Planting the flag was a monumental task. Studies
>suggested that th lunar soil was soft, but they found it
>was a thin dust over rock. The managed to drive the
>flagpole a few inches into the ground and film it for
>broadcast and then took care not to accidently knock it
>over! By the way, the flag was made by Sears, but NASA
>refused to acknowledge this to avoid another "Tang".
>
>
>
>Just thought you might like to know.
>
>Bob Pratt, BBD1
>
>McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co.
>
>Now a division of Boeing.
>
>
>
>Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:41:55 -0500
>Subject: [GeoStL] NGR-Apollo 11 anniversary
>From: showme69@xxxxxxxxx
>To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>NASA is recreating the mission online.
>
>http://wechoosethemoon.org/
>
>
>Gale
>
>
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