4 years from being born

On July 16, two friends and I drove from Atlanta down to Cape Canaveral. From 13 miles away we saw the launch of Apollo 11.

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It was FAKE!

Lol.

I was sitting in a waiting room at a large Ford agency in Burbank, Calif., waiting for the company to finish some work on my Ford 500. I watched it on the agency's teevee in the waiting room.

L.W.

Summer job of pipeline construction while in college.

Amazing how they got through that asteroid belt with the computers they had then, one tenth or less powerful as our cell phone computers now.

Not seeing how the moon rover stayed tied to the lunar module on the trip. It was way to big to get it through the hatch.

Strangely, when NASA was asked recently why there have been no more moon landings, an official said they had "lost the recipe". Hummm.

Summer job of pipeline construction while in college.

Amazing how they got through that asteroid belt with the computers they had then, one tenth or less powerful as our cell phone computers now.

Not seeing how the moon rover stayed tied to the lunar module on the trip. It was way to big to get it through the hatch.

Strangely, when NASA was asked recently why there have been no more moon landings, an official said they had "lost the recipe". Hummm.

I was at a friend's house, the guy lived across the street from my grandparents in Fabens (TX) and I was spending the week down there (I was 14 at the time). This guy's dad had a full wall of the living room full of rifles of all kinds and was into handloading and big game hunting, but the ol' man didn't seem to have the time of day for us youngsters. That's too bad, too because I don't doubt I could have learned a bunch from him. They had one of the biggest and best television sets you could get at that time also. I wonder what happened to that dude.

I don`t remember the whole year of 1969 .

Summer job of pipeline construction while in college.

Amazing how they got through that asteroid belt with the computers they had then, one tenth or less powerful as our cell phone computers now.

Not seeing how the moon rover stayed tied to the lunar module on the trip. It was way to big to get it through the hatch.

Strangely, when NASA was asked recently why there have been no more moon landings, an official said they had "lost the recipe". Hummm.

On leave...Uncle Sam's Canoe Club. My family went to my uncle's motel to watch it with him and my grandfather. I remember when Neil Armstrong was coming down the ladder, my grandfather got up and left the room...he said "It just can't be real."

This from a man that grew up before electricity. Up until a year before this he had a 9N Ford tractor, but still farmed mostly with horses.

At the military Recreation site in Seward. I think we decided to stay and watch it rather than going fishing.

I was at my dad's house, celebrating my 1st wedding anniversary and watching man walk on the moon.

Define "cell phone computer" and identify which "asteroid belt" you're referring to please.....I just want to learn more about the moon landing conspiracy.

Thanks buddy.

I have eaten some awfully good steaks and quail in Fabens, Texas! Hurrumph!

Amazing what an ignoramus jag has turned out to be on anything even remotely connected to science.

Filling a diaper, probably.

I was a junior set designer working on finish painting a black background for a Stanley Kubrick movie. We weren’t told what movie it was. It was a secret.



Just kidding. I was a little over a year old. Don’t remember what I was doing. When I went to the Smithsonian several years ago and saw the lunar module is when I started thinking it was a load of BS. Looks like it was made of bailing wire and tin foil. After watching the news on Covid I really stopped believing anything the gubermint was telling us. If you believe we really walked on the moon, more power to you. Strange we have never went back. Scientist have been to the far reaches of the planet many times and still go back to do more research. Why not the moon? Let the roasting begin.

It can't be done because of the Van Halen radiation belt.

Amazing what an ignoramus jag has turned out to be on anything even remotely connected to science. He's likely meaning to refer to the Van Allen radiation belt around the earth. They merely navigated the vessel through its weakest point.

Camping in Colorado on the cheap. VW, pup tent. Beach mattresses, sterno stove, like I said, cheap. Two young teachers.

I'd say you have no better idea what the Van Allen belt is that Jag does.

On what do you base this? Of possible trajectories for passing through it were those that sent their vessel through areas exposing them to the least amount of radiation, and that's the trajectory they followed. What part of that is in error, precisely?

PS Jag was under the impression that the Van Allen belt was an asteroid belt.

I was 11, watched it with my family, not sure I belive that it really happened! Don't trust my Government!

I was in a film studio, working on a project for a government agency.

Big deal - hush-hush type of project.

The Van Allen Belt was once though hazardous, but it turned out to be inconsequential.

Certainly, at the time of the Apollo missions, it was thought dangerous enough that navigation of the crafts' trajectory which exposed astronauts to the least amount of radiation from them was thought important. Can you show me proof that a trajectory through the most dense parts of it is harmless to humans?

I would ask that you show the opposite. If they left Earth orbit in a polar plane it's news to me. You could be right, but I sure don't recall any such thing and I was pretty tuned to all that stuff, even at 14 years old. At least I thought I was.

In fact, I would like to know if it's taken into account in this day and time.

Who put the laser reflector on the moon, then? You can verify its existence by pointing a powerful laser at the right coordinate, and receiving a return signal.

Well, since you don't know much about it, why do you assume you know more than me?

I can tell you that there is Gamma radiation in the upper atmosphere that affects modern avionics systems. Most should be aware that Gamma radiation is a pretty serious thing, but we are exposed to enough of it at 30,000 feet to cause high-tech electronics to flip out.

Working at Swift Meat Packing. Afterwards I couldn't eat bologna or wieners for years. If you saw what went into them you couldn't either.

Oi, have I spent enough years designing avionics... including nuke hardened designs.

You’ve done this?

I have to repeat every piece of research that's ever been done before I accept that it's a commonly repeated experiment??

I have to repeat every piece of research that's ever been done before I accept that it's a commonly repeated experiment??

Are saying they broadcast it live to Seward. At Fort Greely we could only listen to it on the radio as there was no live broadcast to Alaska at the time. Everything came in on a 2 week delay. I remember that the US went to great pains to make sure the rest of the world got to see it live but I guess they forgot about us at Fort Greely.

Was a simple question. You could have said "no, but there is a plethora of material out there proving it has been done"

You said "you can". Which led me to believe it was an easily replicated experiment.

I am unfamiliar with this, can you point me to a reputable source?

My apologies, Billy. I thought you were being an a-hole. My mistake.

They didn't traverse any asteroid belts. They did go beyond the Van Allen belt, however.

Adrenochrome is real.

It is. Ritualistic sacrificing of young children so that Hollywood and political elites can drink the blood and achieve some type of invigorating high; is not.

and the solution to address Single Event Upset is what, exactly??

Perhaps. Perhaps not. That trafficking in young flesh is a real thing is not questionable, though.

and the solution to address Single Event Upset is what, exactly??

In order to prevent latch-up in space, epitaxial substrates, silicon on insulator (SOI) or silicon on sapphire (SOS) are often used to further reduce or eliminate the susceptibility.

This means USE ELECTRONIC DEVICES ON THEIR APROVED LIST...which happen to be expensive long lead items that perform poorly.

Where are the stars?

Perhaps. Perhaps not. That trafficking in young flesh is a real thing is not questionable, though.

Couple of days before I turned 15 watching the landing in my parents living room. Seem to remember it was later in the evening in NY.

-Ken

Rich, have you ever taken a photograph, especially a motion picture, and seen visible stars in the photo?

4:00 - 4:30 PM EDT. Two hours earlier out here.

One thing is for sure is that the saturn V never even made it to lower earth orbit and probably ended up in the trench."ocean"
In the video you see the saturn V break through the high cirrus clouds at the 105 second mark after lift off, high cirrus clouds are at
around 25,000 feet the saturn V should have been at an altitude of over 80,000 feet at that point, so more that three times
lower than they should have been. This is not consperacy talk this a mathematical fact and has been confirmed over and over
by other "Rocket Scientists"

We obviously went because of the reflectors up there, but if what was televised at the time is real, I don't know. For all we know they fugged up the film on the way back and needed to save face but the one thing I know is that their TV press conference after the fact is weird as shìt. They act like they saw something they wanted to forget. Maybe there's a reason we haven't been back since those missions.

That would make it 7:00 - 7:30 New York time. That doesn't make sense, because I distinctly remember having already gone to bed, and my brother convincing me to get out of bed to watch the first man walk on the moon.

July 20, 1969 - At 1:47 p.m. EDT Armstrong and Aldrin, in the lunar module Eagle, separate from the command module. Collins remains onboard the Columbia orbiting the moon. - 4:17 p.m. EDT - The Eagle lands. - 4:18 p.m. EDT - "Houston, Tranquility Base here.

- 10:56 p.m. EDT - Armstrong says, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," as he becomes the first human to set foot on the moon.

Rich, have you ever taken a photograph, especially a motion picture, and seen visible stars in the photo?

Coming out of my mothers hoo hah when it was happening!

Back in my photography days, I used four lenses for different things. I never experienced what you are talking about.

My mind is reminiscing about a couple really good shots.

Back to the topic at hand....
I'm supposed to believe our government spent hundreds of millions of dollars and didn't have a good enough camera and film to prevent my queston.

Rich check out this link. It answers some questions. It occurs to me that the images were probably not digital, but transmitted in analog. Just as TV was at that time.

https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/moon-to-living-room-apollo-11-broadcast

EDT is New York time.
It is a matter of record.

But they did wait a few hours before actually stepping onto the lunar surface.

I'm supposed to believe our government spent hundreds of millions of dollars and didn't have a good enough camera and film to prevent my queston.

That would make it 7:00 - 7:30 New York time. That doesn't make sense, because I distinctly remember having already gone to bed, and my brother convincing me to get out of bed to watch the first man walk on the moon.

I was 19 and about a month away from getting off a bus at Parris Island S.C.. It was a Sunday night and I watched it in the living room with the whole family. Shortly after that I walked outside and the moon was visible in the night sky. I remember looking at it and it blew my mind that there were guys up there.

Packing my seabag, getting ready for an all expenses paid trip to Vietnam.

No doubt. High frequency = Low power and Low frequency = High power.

Here we go

https://www.aulis.com/apollo11saturn_v2.htm

And

https://www.aulis.com/apollo11saturn_v.htm

Well, buck, you're not a fu cking boomer. But you are a fu cking azzwipe. As is anybody who defames boomers. Your parents are likely boomers.

Ringman, who put the two laser reflectors on the moon? You can verify that they are indeed there by pointing a high powered laser at the correct coordinates and receive a return signal. Scientists, with the aid of computerized equipment, are able to determine the exact distance of the moon from the earth by this method.

U of M Bug Camp on Douglas Lake, Pellston, MI taking summer courses. Don't recall that there was a televsion....pretty far from TV broadcast stations.

Here's another question. If the lunar module had thrusters on it to prevent it from crashing onto the moon's surface, why was there loose dust in which to make a footprint as he stepped off the ladder?

Because there was no breeze to carry that dust away after disturbance by those thrusters.

Because there was no breeze to carry that dust away after disturbance by those thrusters.

You don't get it. Because there is no atmosphere the dust would have continued in the direction from which it was disturbed. There would not be any dust for a footprint. NONE!

Okay, so how did the two laser reflectors get on the moon? You can verify that they are there by pointing a precision high-powered laser at the right coordinate and registering a bounce back signal on special instruments. They are used on a regular basis by researchers in this manner. How'd they get there? I'd appreciate an answer. You keep dodging it.

You're assuming I believe there are laser reflector on the moon. Laser range finders work everyday in the hunting fields. What scientist put them on the hunters' targets?

You don't get it. Because there is no atmosphere the dust would have continued in the direction from which it was disturbed. There would not be any dust for a footprint. NONE!

You don't get it. Because there is no atmosphere the dust would have continued in the direction from which it was disturbed. There would not be any dust for a footprint. NONE!

In the annals of golf history, Alan Shepard’s shots from the lunar sand may be the most famous swings ever taken. And after 50 years, image analysts have finally determined how far his golf balls went.

When America’s first man in space was assigned to be commander of Apollo 14, he saw an opportunity to create the 1971 equivalent of a viral moment. So, before his trip to the Moon, he commissioned a custom 6-iron head that he could attach to the end of a lunar sampling tool in lieu of a regular golf club.

Then, as his time on the lunar surface came to an end, he stood in front of a TV camera with his makeshift club and two golf balls. After a few one-armed swings that mainly moved regolith, he shanked his first ball into a crater. He made better contact with the second ball, though. And as it sailed out of the camera’s view, he remarked, “Miles and miles and miles.”

Of course, he didn’t mean that literally. But in the Moon’s airless environment with just one-sixth the gravity of Earth, Shepard later estimated that his modest pitch shot carried the ball about 200 yards (600 feet).

However, image specialist Andy Saunders recently analyzed archival stills taken by the astronauts with their Hasselblad cameras, as well as video from the lunar ascent module as it lifted off from the surface. Saunders managed to identify not only Shepard’s golf balls, but also his footprints from his stance and his divots. By comparing these to more recent satellite images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Saunders was able to measure the distance on Shepard’s second shot. The result? A rather tame 40 yards (120 feet).

Still, that’s not bad for a one-handed bunker shot taken while wearing a bulky spacesuit in weak gravity. Plus, it served as one of the Apollo program’s most memorable moments. When asked about the shot at a post-flight Congressional hearing, Shepard quipped, “I did this since I am patriotic and concerned about the security of the nation.”