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Post by irishpad on Aug 2, 2020 11:10:47 GMT -5
The Space X crew are splashing down at 2:48 Eastern time today. I remember in grade school watching all the Apollo missions coming home. Looking forward to this new phase in our space program. Are you watching it? What are your memories of the earlier phases of the space program?
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Post by busymom on Aug 2, 2020 11:36:54 GMT -5
I remember in elementary school AV students wheeling in a television set for us kids to watch the rocket launches. At the time, I thought they were pretty cool. And, seeing a man walk on the moon was definitely worth watching. I was at work when the Challenger mishap occurred. Just for fun, someone had brought out a television for us to watch that launch. (Remember, there was a teacher on board, so we thought it'd be fun to watch.) It was shocking to see Challenger blow up. Just for fun, DD was watching online last night, when Crew Dragon detached from the International Space Station, and began it's return to earth. I ended up watching with her for a time. I still think watching these events in real time is pretty cool.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Aug 2, 2020 11:43:43 GMT -5
Hubs worked in aerospace, and helped create one of the earliest P&W space shuttle engines, which is on display at the Smithsonian. I now get to refer to him a a museum piece. Totally remember where I was for the moon landing. I was 11 years old. Watched it on a small black and white TV. It was an unreal but proud moment in history.
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Post by irishpad on Aug 2, 2020 12:40:39 GMT -5
One of earliest memories I have of watching TV was the Christmas (Apollo 9?) where they went around the moon (was 6) and then the moon landing later. Also remember the tense days of Apollo 13 and the amazing work they did to save them.... waiting to see them safely come out of the capsule after the splashdown.
Side memory from that time....... elections of 1968, remember my sister (who was about 10 at the time) saying, "we don't want him to win (George Wallace) because he will kill all the black people." Left impression on me.
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Post by toomuchreality on Aug 2, 2020 15:52:45 GMT -5
I was 11 when they walked on the moon, in '69. I was playing at a friend's house. We stopped what we were doing and watched (on a black and white tv).
I don't have specific memories about the other missions, except seeing the take off and explosion of the one with the teacher on it.
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 2, 2020 16:03:34 GMT -5
Among many other things I remember about our country's space exploration is the family and extended family sitting in front of the TV on July 20, 1969 and watching Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. The parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents are all dead now but they lived to see this momentous event in their lifetime.
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 2, 2020 16:05:47 GMT -5
I remember in elementary school AV students wheeling in a television set for us kids to watch the rocket launches. At the time, I thought they were pretty cool. And, seeing a man walk on the moon was definitely worth watching. I was at work when the Challenger mishap occurred. Just for fun, someone had brought out a television for us to watch that launch. (Remember, there was a teacher on board, so we thought it'd be fun to watch.) It was shocking to see Challenger blow up. Just for fun, DD was watching online last night, when Crew Dragon detached from the International Space Station, and began it's return to earth. I ended up watching with her for a time. I still think watching these events in real time is pretty cool. We AV students were pretty nerdy back then.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2020 18:08:45 GMT -5
Good first step back to the stars, can’t believe we went so many years without manned space flight in the US. I wasn’t a fan of the shuttle program, I thought it was an expensive waste of time that didn’t even have us in “real” space. We have a long way to go to get to a moon base and Mars.
I remember watching the shuttle launches in elementary until Challenger, I just remember the teacher wheeling the TV set out of the classroom pretty quick when it first broke up.
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Post by busymom on Aug 2, 2020 19:57:12 GMT -5
I remember in elementary school AV students wheeling in a television set for us kids to watch the rocket launches. At the time, I thought they were pretty cool. And, seeing a man walk on the moon was definitely worth watching. I was at work when the Challenger mishap occurred. Just for fun, someone had brought out a television for us to watch that launch. (Remember, there was a teacher on board, so we thought it'd be fun to watch.) It was shocking to see Challenger blow up. Just for fun, DD was watching online last night, when Crew Dragon detached from the International Space Station, and began it's return to earth. I ended up watching with her for a time. I still think watching these events in real time is pretty cool. We AV students were pretty nerdy back then. Hey, I was friends with some of the nerds. At least they were intelligent to talk with.
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 2, 2020 20:02:41 GMT -5
We AV students were pretty nerdy back then. Hey, I was friends with some of the nerds. At least they were intelligent to talk with. We were just surly.
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Post by busymom on Aug 2, 2020 21:40:12 GMT -5
Hey, I was friends with some of the nerds. At least they were intelligent to talk with. We were just surly. Not the ones I knew. They were very mechanically inclined. And, they had the best stories. I found out one time the cause of the fire alarm being pulled was an electrical accident backstage. There was no fire. But, the auditorium got filled with smoke.
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Post by oakheart on Aug 3, 2020 7:02:15 GMT -5
I watched it. Here is a screen shot as they lifted the capsule from the GOM.
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Post by oakheart on Aug 3, 2020 7:06:16 GMT -5
Hatch open and Bob Behnken first to Egress.
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