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Topic: David Scott's "A fire to be lighted" quote
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Aztecdoug
Member Posts: 1405
From: Huntington Beach
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 06-17-2010 03:18 PM
   
When and where did Dave Scott say the following? We went to the Moon as trained observers in order to gather data, not only with our instruments on board, but also with our minds. Plutarch, a wise man who lived a long time ago, expressed the feelings of the crew of Apollo 15 when he wrote, The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted. |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1505
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 06-17-2010 03:25 PM
3/15/72 at 2333 EST to a young astronaut groupie named Tiffany at the Tiki Bar of the Cocoa Beach Holiday Inn.(Actually, I think it was before a joint session of Congress in 1971.) |
Aztecdoug
Member Posts: 1405
From: Huntington Beach
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 06-17-2010 04:14 PM
So they got all the members of congress into the Cocoa Beach Tiki Bar? Some things never change in politics! |
heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 06-18-2010 02:13 AM
I believe Scott said it at the end of the Apollo 15 post flight press conference. The quote is in the official NASA film on the flight "In the mountains of the moon". |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1505
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 06-18-2010 12:47 PM
To which Tiffany the groupie replied: "Plutarch? That's my favorite Disney character!"I seem to remember something in National Geographic about Apollo 15, which included a post-flight speech to Congress and Scott making that quote. |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3120
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 06-18-2010 01:26 PM
"To the Mountains of the Moon" by Kenneth W. Weaver (National Geographic magazine, February, 1972) contains this reference in the final paragraph (although the text doesn't mention Plutarch). The paragraph refers to the Apollo 15 crew's "first public appearance after returning to Earth" and I assume this was the press conference at the end of the NASA film "In the Mountains of the Moon."As a slight aside, I don't think Colin Burgess will mind if I reveal that he had another quotation lined up for the start of the Apollo 15 chapter in "Footprints in the Dust" but I asked for the Plutarch quote to be used in view of its close association with the mission and its obvious link with the scientific bonanza from the mission. I was also able to make a link between the quotation and the final paragraph in the chapter - but you all know that already, don't you? |
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