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45 years ago today: Apollo 11 took off carrying the first men to the moon, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins.

 

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Pan American World Airways ... from a shell company to the top of the Aviation world, to bankruptcy and ultimately absorbed by Delta ... then the rights were sold to Pam American Airways ... quite the story, quite the comback and at least 5 reincarnations along the way too.

 

Would like to see this documentary: Come Fly with Me: The Story of Pan Am (2011) - IMDb

It is 7.4 out of 10 Stars currently.

 

Would also like to see this 58 minute documentary released after Pan Am's demise in 1991:

 

Death of An American Dream - The Pan Am Story

 

http://youtu.be/dcjckcWnSEI

 

Not gonna happen on my bandwidth though...sigh...

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I hear ya.

 

DId you ever see movie, "The Aviator" with Alec Baldwin playing "kill the competition" against Howard Hughes?

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45 years ago today: Apollo 11 took off carrying the first men to the moon, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins.

 

Apollo 8 took the first men to the moon.

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Yes, but...

 

Apollo 11 first to:

 

1. land on the moon

2. walk on the moon

3. take off safely

4. land safely back home

5. fully executed the JFK admonition/inspiration to land a man on the moon and return home safely within a decade.

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You are just being funny right, Temmu? Hard to tell sometimes...

 

As 'good' as it's gotten with the Shuttle, in Apollo days and before that, things were not so good.

 

Effect of spaceflight on the human body .... and that's just the human body stuff.

 

Doesn't even cover being in space for a prolonged period of time to accomplish getting to and landing on the moon; G force on the body, dealing with being bombarded with cosmic rays right through the spacecraft that our planet protects us from, seriously recycled air (way worse than being on a flight on the earth), weird foods, recycling of water/body elimination, spacesuit issues ... yep, must be the good life....not!

 

Sure, it's gotten somewhat better than it was then, but this is the legacy of how we got here. And some of these things have changed but not gotten better at all. Some are just what it is.

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aviators live the life! how much more so, astronauts!

 

(apollo leventy leven astronauts)

 

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The good ole 1960s... when you could smoke on a space shuttle.... B)

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This clip is raw from Camera E-8 on the launch umbilical tower/mobile launch program of Apollo 11, July 16, 1969. The camera is running at 500 fps, making the total clip of over 8 minutes represent just 30 seconds of actual time. Narration is provided by Mark Gray, Executive Producer for Spacecraft Films.

 

http://vimeo.com/4366695

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This clip is raw from Camera E-8 on the launch umbilical tower/mobile launch program of Apollo 11, July 16, 1969. The camera is running at 500 fps, making the total clip of over 8 minutes represent just 30 seconds of actual time. Narration is provided by Mark Gray, Executive Producer for Spacecraft Films.

 

Very cool!

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Michael Collins is the only human, living or dead, not contained in the frame of this picture.

 

Yep, somebody had to take the picture. ;)

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I remember both of those JFK speeches and you are right, although later the first one will be more important for quick quotes, combined with that first one, the second speech gave much more impetus to make this happen before the decade was over.

 

And that combination and likely wanting to honor JFK's vision after his death is what urged scientists to make it happen.

 

Thanks for posting them Webb! Great memories.

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Just in case.

 

http://www.lettersof...n-disaster.html

 

On July 18 of 1969, as the world waited anxiously for Apollo 11 to land safely on the surface of the Moon, speechwriter William Safire imagined the worst case scenario as he expertly wrote the following sombre memo to President Nixon's Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman. Its contents: a contingency plan, in the form of a speech to be read out by Nixon should astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become stranded on the Moon, never to return, followed by some brief instructions relating to its broadcast. Luckily for all those involved, the memo was never needed.

 

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Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.

 

These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

 

These two men are laying down their lives in mankind's most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding.

 

They will be mourned by their families and friends; they will be mourned by the nation; they will be mourned by the people of the world; they will be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send two of her sons into the unknown.

 

In their exploration, they stirred the people of the world to feel as one; in their sacrifice, they bind more tightly the brotherhood of man.

 

In ancient days, men looked at the stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

 

Others will follow, and surely find their way home. Man's search will not be denied. But these men were the first, and they will remain the foremost in our hearts.

 

For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind.

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One of Isaac Asimov's novels ("The End of Eternity") turned in part on the theory that human society denied space travel and the chance to explore turned on itself in various destructive ways. It was only part of the plot line for a novel, but you have to wonder if there might be a grain of truth there.

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very cool. thx for posting.

having grown up in orlando, florida, i have fond memories of the sound of rocket motors. :)

 

Nice! I lived in Orlando for a year or so but I lived in Daytona Beach for 13 years and went to Cape Canaveral quite often to watch shuttle launches.

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