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Topic: Apollo 11 eyewitness mission accounts
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spaceman1953
Member Posts: 909
From: South Bend, IN United States of America
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 03-19-2012 04:45 PM
   
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Originally posted by Ray Carpenter:
I discovered this site in a Google image search trying to find inadvertent photos of him taken at work back then. If anyone else has photos of KSC Launch Control, and especially any taken of the vicinity around Walter Cronkite's broadcast booth, my family and I would sincerely, and deeply appreciate seeing them.
Thank you, Ray, for your heartfelt remembrances. Very, very touching. Many parts of it are. What brought me to tears was the "we thought these times would never end..." Thanks again.Oh, and welcome and come back often! Hope you find some pics you are looking for! |
Colin E. Anderton
Member Posts: 63
From: Newmarket, Suffolk, England
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 03-20-2012 07:27 AM
At 50 years old I am proud of this country and my very small part played in Apollo 11. As a 10 year old boy I helped "save the day" at the Guam tracking station on Apollo 11's return to earth. I wonder if Greg is aware that he was mentioned by name on the public circuit during the mission? During his report at 169 hours, 28 minutes PAO Jack Riley gave him a plug.Since NASA has been putting its audio online, I've been making some CDs of mission highlights, and I just happened to include this PAO announcement. |
Tom
Member Posts: 1214
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 03-20-2012 05:59 PM
This thread has brought back some real great memories. On August 13, 1969 my Dad brought me to lower Manhattan in New York City to see the Apollo 11 crew tickertape parade. In 2006, I had the honor of meeting Neil Armstrong during the John Glenn lecture series in Washington. Even though I knew Mr. Armstrong no longer signed autographs, it was a thrill to show him a photo I had taken that day of him and his crew and to shake his hand! |
Space Cadet Carl
Member Posts: 77
From: Lake Orion, Michigan
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 03-22-2012 10:09 AM
My 14 year old mind was constantly dreaming about engineering and technology while watching Apollo 11 in 1969. That flight and the entire Apollo program was a huge catalyst in sparking my interest in engineering... along with millions of other American kids. |
DChudwin
Member Posts: 905
From: Lincolnshire IL USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 12-02-2012 04:46 PM
I am pleased to learn that an article I wrote about my Apollo 11 launch eyewitness experience will appear in the January 2013 issue of Spaceflight, the publication of the British Interplanetary Society. The cover of the issue is a photo I took of the Saturn V on the pad 2 days before the launch. (See Fig. 3 from my post of 5/2/09 upthread) |
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