The Eagle has landed.

[Weirdo]

50 years ago today, the Second Age of Mankind began, with one small step. Happy anniversary, everyone!

[Daryk]

Indeed!  Even The Economist put "The Next 50 Years in Space" on the their cover this week...  :thumbsup:

[roosterboy]

Found in my mother's garage last December...

[Maingunnery]

Found in my mother's garage last December...

These papers are in good condition. Great find!  :thumbsup:

[Frabby]

In many ways, the moon landing was one of humanity's finest hours.
I wasn't born until the Apollo program was over and Skylab circled the earth; but the Apollo program certainly reverberated well into my youth.

I found a German tabloid newspaper covering the successful return of the Apollo 13 astronauts in my grandmother's house as a kid, and still have it. I think I saw the Challenger explode live on the small portable b/w TV I had at the time, and I certainly did see the Columbia go down live on TV. Bad memories, both.
My son could tell the most important rockets apart by sight at age 2, and could recite a correct countdown in English and French before he could properly count UP to ten in German.

[Colt Ward]

Fifty years since JFK's call was realized-

 " . . . this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the earth."

And one of my favorite lines from his speeches-

"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."

[I am Belch II]

Just amazing that was 50 years ago. Wonder how far ahead would be in space if that 9 years since the JFK speech and keep that same drive and determination  like that.....money was the other issue.

[Colt Ward]

It was not, and I think I will leave it there as Rule 4.

[Feenix74]

Definitely still reverebrates, here in Canberra, Australia as one of our claims to fame is that our Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station relayed the TV images of the moon landing.

As a result we have had a local Moon Week to celebrate the moon landings, we have had a lot of different events held all around Canberra. One of them was a art exhibition which included this 1:2 scale model of the Apollo Lunar Module by Tom Buckland built from cardboard, wood, steel perspex and found objects.



It has been a while since I uploaded photos to Google Photo and linked them in the BT forum, so if you cannot see the photos, please say so and I will figure out how to fix it again (I can see the images on preview, but I know Google Photos is troublesome)

[Colt Ward]

No, they loaded . . .

3 men floating into the black in a beer can . . .

[ANS Kamas P81]

On a raft made of sticks and foil, we threw three men eight times at the Moon, and brought all of them back.  Almost a million miles to the moon, around it so many times, then back.  For eight days they coasted, splashing down perfectly.

If you were to shoot a basketball from New York to Los Angeles, bounce it off Shaq's forehead, and have it come all the way back and swish the hoop - nothin but net - you'd achieve the same feat.

[garhkal]

I just wonder.  Will i see us land on Mars in my life time?