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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.
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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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