Anniversary of Apollo Mission

[gizz72]

Greetings,

Today we celebrate, July,20 1969 as the mark of the Apollo Lunar mission First Landing.

Now, here's a little discussion to talk about:

Is it a HOAX or not? :-D

Enjoy.

Regards,

Gizz

[cecilia]

get "From the Earth to the Moon" and watch it.
it's very good and tells the story of the Apollo missions very well.

then come back and tell me.


(for me, the 20th is tomorrow, but thanks for the reminder, anyway)

[gizz72]

@Cecilia

Thanks, I knew it not.
I really hate it when some ppl say it was a hoax. It even has pictures and stuff, but I erased that email long ago.

Cheers :pint:

Regards,

Gizz

[Wain]

I really hate it when some ppl say it was a hoax. It even has pictures and stuff, but I erased that email long ago.

  A lot of the more recent hoax arguments were put together on a FOX tv program called 'we never went to the moon' or something like that.  If you want to see some really interesting stuff about it though, I highly recommend checking out astronomer Phil Plait's website bad astronomy which actually goes into detail explaining why all these items brought forth in the fox program are wrong.  

  The site's really interesting, he goes out of his way to debunk a lot of popular myths, and reviews films, tv programs, and the media too!

[PMC]

My childhood heroes were people like Armstrong, Aldrin, Shepherd and Harrison Schmitt - the last man (and the only scientist) to walk on the moon back in 1972.

It's difficult to appreciate the risks involved in today's cosseted society but the three man crew of the Apollo missions were 250,000 miles from home in uncharted territory and at the mercy of meteorite strikes, solar storms and all manner of perils in their tiny, flimsy spacecraft with little or no hope of rescue should the slightest problem occur.  

[blobrana]

Yea,




 a differant time and a very  differant place..

[PMC]

It's sobering to think that the last Saturn V thundered into the skies en route to the moon two years before I was born.

It's a crying shame that we'll probably never see anything quite like it again.  

[Crumpster]

Moon Footprint (Direct link didn't work:-()

:-D Couldn't resist!!

The moon landings were a great human achievement. Let's hope we go back someday.

Cheers,

Graham C  

[macto]

I'm a skeptic, and the only way we will find out for sure is if we go back. :-D

[KennyR]

I don't believe in the existence of Asia, because I've never been there and everyone else who has is probably lying about it.

[blobrana]

@KennyR
Hum,
You’ll be saying next that you don't believe in a hollow earth...

Anyway i noticed today that the subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee that oversees the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, as well as independent agencies such as NASA, celebrated the anniversary, by cutting $1.1 billion from the agency's proposed $16.2-billion budget for fiscal year 2005.

 The cuts included $268 million from Project Prometheus, NASA's nuclear systems program; $468 million from the Crew Exploration Vehicle; $100 million by accelerating the end of the Space Launch Initiative program; and $30 million from technology maturation programs.
The subcommittee also cut $100 million from the ISS program, but left the shuttle and Mars exploration programs fully funded.
The resulting $15.1-billion budget is $229 million below NASA's current 2004 budget.

[gizz72]

@blob

Look at all those $$$. Gee, can I have just $5 million of it? :lol:

/me drooling whether how many Miggys I could buy???

Now lets think of the future missions to colonize the moon. I believe the moon has more GOLD to finance all what blob just ssid. Given the chance to do it.

I also would like to pay a respect to the MEN and WOMEN of other space mission that mankind has lost as well. :-(

Regards,

Gizz

[cecilia]

The Project Apollo Archive has nice pics and other info.