posted 02-16-2014 07:09 PM            

Was he at the launch day breakfast?

posted 02-17-2014 07:02 AM               

Attendees at the pre-launch breakfast are almost always enumerated by PAO during his running commentary of the countdown. NASA has all the PAO transcripts online for Gemini, but I do not know if they have them online for Apollo.

posted 02-17-2014 06:29 PM               

Interestingly, the Guardian quoted Jim Lovell in 2008 as having been with Charles Lindbergh for the Apollo 11 launch.

I sat beside Charles Lindbergh at the launch of Apollo 11. "It's a great event," he said, "but you know you were the ones who really spearheaded the moon programme".

posted 02-18-2014 12:20 PM            

In December 1968, just days before the launch of Apollo 8 - the first lunar orbital flight with the three-man crew of Frank Borman, James Lovell Jr. and William Anders - Buckley recalls getting a phone call from Borman with a request: "He asked me to take care of a dignitary who was coming to KSC and give him a low-key visit."

Then Buckley learned who the dignitary was - Charles Lindbergh. "He talked a lot about his own historic flight," said Buckley.

Only 41 years had passed since Lindbergh's solo airplane crossing of the Atlantic, and now three men were poised to cross the sky and circle the moon. Lindbergh and Buckley later joined the Apollo 8 crew at their traditional pre-launch meal Dec. 21, 1968.

posted 02-21-2014 12:43 PM               

Marilyn Lovell and her children had been picked up by a NASA official before dawn and driven to an isolated sand dune on the beach, only three miles from the launchpad...

Also on the sand dune sat Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Two days earlier they had visited the astronauts for a pleasant afternoon lunch. The astronauts, about to join the ranks of pioneers like Lindbergh, sat in delight as he described his flight across the ocean. Later he talked about the time he had met Robert Goddard, the inventor of the liquid fueled rocket and the father of American rocketry. Everyone laughed when Lindbergh described how Goddard thought he could have designed a rocket to reach the moon, though 'unfortunately it might cost as much as a million dollars.' The 1960s American space program, whose sole goal was to send a man to the moon, cost approximately twenty-five thousand times more.

Lindbergh himself was filled with wonder at what the astronauts were doing. At one point in the evening he calculated that in the first second of the Saturn 5's flight, it would burn 'ten times more fuel than I did all the way to Paris'.

Several months later, Anne Lindbergh wrote about this short afternoon meeting with the astronauts.

posted 02-21-2014 01:23 PM               

The card is documented here and in this 2009 cS post.

posted 02-21-2014 09:47 PM            

Marilyn Lovell and her children had been picked up by a NASA official before dawn and driven to an isolated sand dune on the beach, only three miles from the launchpad ... Also on the sand dune sat Charles and Anne Lindbergh.

posted 02-21-2014 11:48 PM               

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Originally posted by LM-12:
Perhaps that was near the secluded Astronaut beach house south of pad 41.

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posted 02-25-2014 11:06 AM            

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Originally posted by dabolton:
Would they shoot straight across the gulf in their trainer jets?

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posted 03-29-2015 03:38 PM               

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Originally posted by LM1:
...Ham the space-chimp can be seen eying Alan Bean's steak & eggs.

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posted 07-29-2015 10:49 AM               

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Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
Interestingly, the Guardian quoted Jim Lovell in 2008 as having been with Charles Lindbergh for the Apollo 11 launch.

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Despite all his airborne experiences, Shepard said the highlight of his career came on the ground, when he and childhood hero Charles Lindbergh talked shop while awaiting the launch of Apollo 11 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. "I would say that was the most exciting moment of my life," he said.