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OT: Lunar Landing 54 Yrs Ago Today (July 20)

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ashokan

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I follow Buzz on Facebook and he's been posting pics and such
People know about the landing but a deeper look into Saturn V and Rocketdyne F1 engine is pretty amazing.
55 million gallons of fuels to launce
Temps got so hot thousands of tubes carrying keroseen lined the engine shrouds to cool things off

Here's an interview with Luke Talley who was an electrical engineer for Apollo program

T"alley: The Saturn is such a monster vehicle, and it is so complex. So many things have
to happen in rapid succession and correct order and so forth, so all of that had to be
automated. Saturn was probably the first large-scale rocket to really be automated, the
check out of it, from start to finish. A lot of that was how do you, given the capabilities
of computers that you had at that time, which was not very much, make that work?"


 
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Archival footage




 
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I remember being down LBI a at the time. It rained every day for almost two weeks so we watching the moon landing and my parents taught my sister and me how to play bridge.
 
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Also the 54th anniversary of the weekend Mary Jo Kopechne drowned.
Jersey Connection: She was a graduate of Caldwell College and though a native of Pennsylvania she lived most of her life in Berkeley Heights.
 
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The first moon landing was the first news event I remember as a child (7 yo). It was late a night for me, so very cool to stay up.

Since I grew up in Bloomfield, Buzz Aldrin was an A-list celebrity - He lived in Montclair. My mom took me to drive by his house the day after the landing. His house was decked out in American flags and RW&B bunting. I think there was a Congratulations Buzz sign as well. Amazing moment.

My elementary school also showed a lot of the Apollo news coverage. I remember watching one of the capsules landing in the ocean.
 
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WhichReligionIsRight said:
The first moon landing was the first news event I remember as a child (7 yo). It was late a night for me, so very cool to stay up.

Since I grew up in Bloomfield, Buzz Aldrin was an A-list celebrity - He lived in Montclair. My mom took me to drive by his house the day after the landing. His house was decked out in American flags and RW&B bunting. I think there was a Congratulations Buzz sign as well. Amazing moment.

My elementary school also showed a lot of the Apollo news coverage. I remember watching one of the capsules landing in the ocean.
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The landing was completed at 4:17pm ET. It was the wait for them to walk on the moon. It was nearly 11pm. Way past my bedtime then and now!
 
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I was 11 and remember being invited with my younger brother, into my parents air conditioned bedroom to watch the moonwalk. We stayed up very late that night.
 
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WhiteBus said:
The landing was completed at 4:17pm ET. It was the wait for them to walk on the moon. It was nearly 11pm. Way past my bedtime then and now!
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Had to take the 7:06 train into Manhattan the next morning for a summer job, but a little sleep deprivation was a small price to pay to be able to watch the walk. A few weeks later I was the only employee under 25 who was in the office the Friday Woodstock began.
 
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ashokan said:
I follow Buzz on Facebook and he's been posting pics and such
People know about the landing but a deeper look into Saturn V and Rocketdyne F1 engine is pretty amazing.
55 million gallons of fuels to launce
Temps got so hot thousands of tubes carrying keroseen lined the engine shrouds to cool things off

Here's an interview with Luke Talley who was an electrical engineer for Apollo program

T"alley: The Saturn is such a monster vehicle, and it is so complex. So many things have
to happen in rapid succession and correct order and so forth, so all of that had to be
automated. Saturn was probably the first large-scale rocket to really be automated, the
check out of it, from start to finish. A lot of that was how do you, given the capabilities
of computers that you had at that time, which was not very much, make that work?"


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That was just an incredible accomplishment, maybe the amazing for mankind. I can't even imagine the stuff they had to figure out...
 
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DJ Spanky said:
A level of greatness we may never achieve again.

I remember my parents rented a TV to be able to watch it.
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Spanky, I've always thought, based on your signature, that we are exactly the same age. I have a vague memory of watching it with my parents on a black and white TV. That would be just like my dad, he always called us in to see historic stuff (like the president resigning in 1974, which to me, at the time, only meant that now there would be cartoons on TV again instead of hearings)...
 
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I saw the moon landing after finishing my shift sorting mail at the US Post Office's sectional center facility in Orlando -- I had a summer job at the Post Office. Later that summer, my mom, sister and I went to Cocoa Beach, where a lot of people working on the moon launch had lived. It was a ghost town -- just about every house was for sale.
 
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I was a young tyke but I was in Cape Cod for the landing - which of course coincided with Teddy K driving off a bridge. People on the cape were sort of fumbling over what to talk about most
 
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ashokan said:
I was a young tyke but I was in Cape Cod for the landing - which of course coincided with Teddy K driving off a bridge. People on the cape were sort of fumbling over what to talk about most
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I was wondering when that would come up...
 
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retired711 said:
I never heard this interesting term before, so thanks! I am what they call a "leading edge boomer," although, born in 1951, I am not close to the cutting edge of the leading edge.
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I was lucky in that Vietnam and all that was over when I was in HS.
I never had to get a draft card and my voice was still high when Woodstock took place.
I watched older cousins graduate with 450 class sizes (double mine) and then end-up in services.
I think a lot of the generational "name-tag" stuff is just media creations but there were a lot of kids in the years behind me.
I indentified with the WWII generation more than anything contemporary (and WWII was all around me)
I remember being in college and thinking "no way these kids could ever run a country"
I wasn't wrong lol
 
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colbert17 said:
The greatest single achievement by mankind. The human race went from skimmimg the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk to walking on the Sea of Tranquility in 66 years.
The ignorance of young people about this feat is staggering.
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Wow! Did not think of that...
 
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colbert17 said:
The greatest single achievement by mankind. The human race went from skimmimg the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk to walking on the Sea of Tranquility in 66 years.
The ignorance of young people about this feat is staggering.
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Two world wars brought a lot of "encouragement" lol
The Wright Brothers are practically anonymous
Just a couple of bike mechs who didn't go to college
 
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colbert17 said:
The greatest single achievement by mankind. The human race went from skimmimg the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk to walking on the Sea of Tranquility in 66 years.
The ignorance of young people about this feat is staggering.
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There's a lot of walking/talking dummies out there. Many ppl probably don't realize we did it five more times (Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16, 17) not to mention the "successful failure", Apollo 13 ! Those subsequent landings hardly get talked about
 
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RUaMoose said:
There's a lot of walking/talking dummies out there. Many ppl probably don't realize we did it five more times (Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16, 17) not to mention the "successful failure", Apollo 13 ! Those subsequent landings hardly get talked about
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Yup. Kind of like space shuttle launches, they became routine so people ignored them until the Challenger disaster.
 
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55 million gals of fuel. Just a thought For comparison...
We recently visited Baily yard in North Platte Nebraska. The largest Rail yard in the world they use 81 million gals of diesel a day...
 
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Ticker tape parade August 13. I was there throwing stuff out of a window.
 
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The largest attended function at Rutgers in 1969 wasn't a sporting event at the Stadium or Commencement, it was at the Geological Hall near Old Queens.

Why?

Thousands came to see the moon rocks that were put on display that year.

Also Buzz Aldrin, the second man to step on the moon was invited to the Rutgers-Princeton Centennial Football Game that September but he couldn't come.
 
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Those early space explorers had some big stones. If something went wrong they were pretty much SOL.
 
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