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Charles Valderrama
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Posted: 21 July 2014 at 2:34pm \| IP Logged \| 1

THIS made me laugh; to think there are people who think the moon landing was all made up!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MOnehCOUw

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Posted: 21 July 2014 at 7:46pm \| IP Logged \| 2

It still is mind-boggling to think men walked on the moon. And so very long ago.

Once upon a time I think I would have jumped at the chance, given the opportunity, to have gone to the moon, but I now find the idea of being so far from home more than a little scary.

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Posted: 22 July 2014 at 8:16pm \| IP Logged \| 3

One of my high school professors worked on the space program. He spent 6 months designing a bracket to hold a lunar buggy battery. He was very proud of that. I don't blame him.

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Posted: 23 July 2014 at 4:08am \| IP Logged \| 4

I've cued up a demonstration of how you operate the Apollo Computer. Rudimentary interface by (any) modern standards, but quite elegant, I think. The tech from the period was really ingenious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIBhPsyYCiM#t=364

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Posted: 23 July 2014 at 7:01am \| IP Logged \| 5

THIS made me laugh; to think there are people who think the moon landing was all made up!!!

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Pick a topic, you will find some nutbar who will insist things are different from what we are told.

Most of the lunacy -- ahem! -- springs from people simply not understanding that the Moon is much SMALLER than the Earth, and visual cues to which we have grown accustomed here do not apply there. Perspectives shift in odd ways when the horizon is so close!

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Posted: 23 July 2014 at 8:10am \| IP Logged \| 6

Jeffery wrote:

One of my high school professors worked on the space program. He spent 6 months designing a bracket to hold a lunar buggy battery. He was very proud of that. I don't blame him.

The GF did an internship at NASA a couple summers back..worked on some ergonomic equipment for exercise use on the ISS..they used molds of her legs to develop the equipment...so she's pretty giddy about "being" up on the ISS. We have a couple of really neat "going away" framed photos...one from the team she worked with and a picture of the ISS and another of what was supposed to be the last shuttle launch crew who delivered the equipment. Because of weather issues they were second to last...it was the crew with the husband of the AZ politician who was shot. Very cool stuff, and proudly displayed.

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Posted: 23 July 2014 at 9:00pm \| IP Logged \| 7

Cool stuff Bob!

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Posted: 23 July 2014 at 10:39pm \| IP Logged \| 8

And on the other side of the Curtain, they worked on this: The Soviet Lunar lander, currently residing in Moscow.

I find it a pity they didn't continue pressing onward with their program after the Apollo landings. We'd (both) probably have pretty substantial moonbases by now. We'd probably have landed on Mars already. Doing all of that would have been enormously cheaper than the amount of money spent on the Arms Race.

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