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Topic: Photo of the week 614 (July 30, 2016)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 07-30-2016 03:20 AM
   
 A view of Apollo 14 on the night before launch, January 1971. The next day this giant rocket would launch three men on a journey to the moon. It was a great time to be alive and I never get tired of looking at photos like this. |
Rick Mulheirn
Member Posts: 4167
From: England
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 07-30-2016 03:52 AM
Stunning and evocative in equal measure. |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 1966
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 07-30-2016 06:51 AM
Beautiful Ed. And your words ring true too. |
Ronpur
Member Posts: 1211
From: Brandon, Fl
Registered: May 2012
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posted 07-30-2016 07:09 AM
So true, Ed. And what a sexy rocket! |
Ian Limbrey
Member Posts: 124
From: England
Registered: Nov 2012
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posted 07-30-2016 08:46 AM
Photos like this need no words to state what an exciting era it was back then! |
mach3valkyrie
Member Posts: 719
From: Albany, Oregon
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 07-30-2016 01:04 PM
Beautiful, just beautiful. |
Tom
Member Posts: 1597
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 07-30-2016 03:48 PM
Fantastic, Ed.So lucky to have seen one of those (13) magnificent machines fly from KSC... Apollo 15, 45 years ago this week! |
MarylandSpace
Member Posts: 1337
From:
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 07-30-2016 04:33 PM
Majestic was the first word that came to mind.
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Jurg Bolli
Member Posts: 977
From: Albuquerque, NM
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 07-30-2016 08:54 PM
I agree, just marvelous! |
Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1587
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 08-01-2016 07:53 AM
A photo of a Saturn V on the launchpad always beings out the feeling of awe inside me. |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1751
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 08-01-2016 10:53 AM
I think this one is a bit special with the only Original 7 astronaut on it, going to the moon.From the first to fly to space for the USA on the tip of a rocket, to the moon. Doesn't get much better than that. |
Kite
Member Posts: 831
From: Northampton UK
Registered: Nov 2009
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posted 08-01-2016 02:19 PM
I agree with ejectr that it was good a Mercury astronaut was able to walk on the Moon. Despite all the maneuvering by Al Shepard to get the command after his disappointment at being grounded for so long, and the risk of his operation for Meniere's disease, I think he deserved it, but still feel Gordo Cooper was hard done by as well.Great photo Ed. |
spaceheaded
Member Posts: 147
From: MD
Registered: Feb 2003
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posted 08-01-2016 11:56 PM
Strangely, in this photo the 'machine' on the right appears nearly as stunning as the one on the left. |
SBIV-B
Member Posts: 47
From: Dacula, GA USA
Registered: Aug 2008
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posted 08-05-2016 10:08 AM
I had the good fortune to see Apollo 14 in person in the VAB when the tour I went on in summer 1970 stopped right outside the VAB door. It was being assembled if I remember correctly but I will never forget that sight and that tour! |
Jonnyed
Member Posts: 396
From: Dumfries, VA, USA
Registered: Aug 2014
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posted 08-06-2016 06:46 PM
In the fall I go into the local 6th grade science classes here in my local school district and I teach a session on energy and physics. I love to juxtapose a beautiful photo like this one right next to a photo of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk in 1903.I specifically point out to the youngsters that it was a mere 66 years between Kitty Hawk and walking on the moon! The human intellect (and this American nation!) is an amazing thing when it chooses to be focused and rise to the challenge. A mere 66 years! |
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