50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission.

cj maxx

I’m engrossed in watching/ recording everything on tv about it. I read Michael Collins’s book a few years ago and can understand why , after being on Apollo 11 , none of them ever went up again. It’s a hard act to follow.
Also what Collins says about Armstrong and Aldrin seems to true. Armstrong was cool and collected and would do whatever was needed at the right time to fulfill the mission and Aldrin seemed more disappointed not to be the first man on the moon than being happy he was the 2nd if that makes sense .!
Also 2 of the crew were grandsons of Irish immigrants.

glennhysen

cjmc wrote: »

I’m engrossed in watching/ recording everything on tv about it. I read Michael Collins’s book a few years ago and can understand why , after being on Apollo 11 , none of them ever went up again. It’s a hard act to follow.
Also what Collins says about Armstrong and Aldrin seems to true. Armstrong was cool and collected and would do whatever was needed at the right time to fulfill the mission and Aldrin seemed more disappointed not to be the first man on the moon than being happy he was the 2nd if that makes sense .!
Also 2 of the crew were grandsons of Irish immigrants.

I've just finished listening to a podcast series called "13 minutes to the Moon" from the BBC World Service.

Really good insight into everything that happened in the final 13 minutes of the descent to the Moon.

SophieLockhart

Armstrong's family got 6 million for a wrongful death :eek::eek:

https://www.space.com/neil-armstrong-wrongful-death-settlement.html?utm_source=sdc-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190725-sdc

crazy stuff

cj maxx

SophieLockhart wrote: »

Armstrong's family got 6 million for a wrongful death :eek::eek:

https://www.space.com/neil-armstrong-wrongful-death-settlement.html?utm_source=sdc-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190725-sdc

crazy stuff

Its seems the hospital cocked up and paid out rather than be blamed for his death

naxi mail top

this day 50 years ago Neil, Buzz and Michael were just getting out of quarantine, after spending 21 days in isolation following their EVA on the moon

After three weeks in confinement (first in the Apollo spacecraft, then in their trailer on Hornet, and finally in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory), the astronauts were given a clean bill of health.[183] On August 10, 1969, the Interagency Committee on Back Contamination met in Atlanta and lifted the quarantine on the astronauts, on those who had joined them in quarantine (NASA physician William Carpentier and MQF project engineer John Hirasaki),[184] and on Columbia itself

glennhysen

glennhysen wrote: »

I've just finished listening to a podcast series called "13 minutes to the Moon" from the BBC World Service.

Really good insight into everything that happened in the final 13 minutes of the descent to the Moon.

Season 2 of 13 Minutes to the Moon starts on 9th March on it's all about Apollo 13. I listened to a 4 minute trailer this morning.