..That's one small step for man...

[mayhem1978]

...One giant leap for mankind... Happy 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing! Whether you saw it on t.v. live, reruns on tape in school, or are of the thought it was staged, we do owe quite a bit to the space program. We now have satellites that allow global communication, internet connections on home PCs that have more computing power that what sent those men to the moon. Not only a proud day in American history, but World history. ~~~Lizz-n-Mayhem~~~

[jseal]

A very big deal. The first time humankind walked on another celestial body. :thumb:

[scotzoidman]

They say that the entire floor of computers feeding data to ground control had the equivalent computing power of today's modern laptop, which would have been a luxury onboard the capsule itself...Armstrong & Co. were muddling thru with little more than the power of today's digital watch.

[Oldfart]

There are more satellites looking at the moon from low lunar orbit. The conspiracy theorists will still misbelieve, but these are interesting anyway.

[themi01]

Zoid ... and the computer on board only had the computing power of one of those give away calculators.... In it's time that was one powerful computer....... and most of the computing was done in a human head then feed into the puter...... ok I am a NASA Geek .... I have the copies of the Boeing blue prints of the Saturn V and The Soviet N1-l3 lunar launch vehicle.... It was so much more seat of the pants flying back then

[scotzoidman]

There are more satellites looking at the moon from low lunar orbit. The conspiracy theorists will still misbelieve, but these are interesting anyway.
My best argument against the claims that the moon landing was faked in a studio, would be that if it was I sure as hell would expected a lot better video quality from here. I don't wonder that Buzz Aldrin actually punched one of those dorks.

OF, in re: Apollo 14 pic, is there any indication of where Shepherd's golf ball landed, or did it come down on the other side of the moon?

[Oldfart]

In the rough on the 17th, believe.

[dicksbro]

In the rough on the 17th, believe.

He would have got it but they were almost late for drinks at the club. :shrug:

[Oldfart]

He must have tried to slice it, which doesn't work in a vacuum. Yes Scotz, we would all like to know how he got in a vacuum.

[scotzoidman]

Speaking of the vacuum, I recall the testing of Galileo's theory (Apollo 17, IIRC) that a feather would fall at the same rate as a rock in a vacuum...the comic strip B.C., one character wondered if that was true, & another said, "Yeah, but it'll set ya back 4 billion clams to prove it!"