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Bob Simko
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45 years (and about 3.5 hours) ago today the greatest adventure and achievement of mankind lifted off...with less technology than I used in writing this post.
Never ceases to be amazing for me.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 16 July 2014 at 11:11am | IP Logged | 2
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Never before or since spent so many unbroken hours glued to the TV!
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Brad Brickley
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| Posted: 16 July 2014 at 12:26pm | IP Logged | 3
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One of my earliest memories is seeing a man on the moon. Amazing!
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Erin Anna Leach
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If only that momentum we had then kept going. I have often wondered if manned space travel with in our solar system would be common place today had we kept on with the space program as it was originally planned out.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 16 July 2014 at 1:20pm | IP Logged | 5
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If only that momentum we had then kept going. I have often wondered if manned space travel with in our solar system would be common place today had we kept on with the space program as it was originally planned out.••• One of the places I plan to go, when I get my time machine working, is a visit to JFK just before he made his "moon in this decade" speech. I would ask him to say, instead, "Mars in this century."
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Carmen Bernardo
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| Posted: 16 July 2014 at 3:16pm | IP Logged | 6
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One of my earliest memories from childhood has been watching PBS programs recapping the lunar missions, and that was mere years after the final Apollo mission. It seems so far away now, when we could do relatively easy monthly or bi-weekly trips to update and maintain a modest space station up there. I guess the experience of that near-disaster on the last mission kind of shell-shocked people into accepting what critics were telling them not to do.
I wonder what it'd take to bring back some of that explorers' spirit?
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Conrad Teves
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| Posted: 16 July 2014 at 7:18pm | IP Logged | 7
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Carmen>> I wonder what it'd take to bring back some of that explorers' spirit?<<
There are plenty of people who have it, just none of them run the government. For a politician, it was genuinely odd that JFK just loved that stuff. His generation had just won WWII, and anything seemed possible to them. His own personal story in WWII is a story of what sheer moxie can accomplish. The Future is that-a-way.
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Matt Hawes
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Conrad Teves
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Nice, Matt!
Found this on Twitter, which reminded me of the Wally Wood piece that follows
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John Byrne
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Ah, Werner von Braun. As Mort Sahl put it, "I aim at the stars -- but sometimes I hit London."
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Conrad Teves
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Y'know, until I saw that video just now, I don't think I knew what Tom Leherer looked like!
I wonder if Von Braun was the root the modern popular notion (which always seems to leak into fiction) of scientists being unconcerned with consequences in their research? His story, at the very least, must have reinforced the idea. It's true that suspicion about scientists goes back a long way, but still. Even today you see things like the Large Hadron Collider triggering waves of remarkably irrational fear in certain sections of the population...
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Carmen Bernardo
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Fear, perhaps. But I think there's also the argument that we shouldn't be spending our treasure and resources on those little baby-steps to the stars when we're dealing with poverty and starvation at home. That seems to be the major theme with the anti-exploration pundits who get air time here.
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