[FPSPACE] FPSPACE Digest, Vol 65, Issue 18
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I watched the early part of the Moon Walk at JFK Airport, where CBS News
had set up a huge projection screen! Stood for FOUR hours waiting for them to
come out, and moments after Armstrong came down the ladder, it was time to
fly!
I had NO idea then that I'd be covering space for CBS News! How about that!
Peter King
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Today's Topics:
1. Apollo 11 (Ralph Gibbons)
2. The Space Sale (Brett Harrison)
3. Re: Apollo 11 (Brett Harrison)
4. We Choose the Moon:a great commemorative Apollo 11 website
(Alex Michael Bonnici)
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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:25:56 +0100
From: "Ralph Gibbons" <ralph at gibbons6035.fsnet.co.uk>
Subject: [FPSPACE] Apollo 11
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My everlasting memory of the Apollo 11 landing is getting up at some
unearthly hour, awakening my wife and daughter (who was 4 years old) and sitting
my daughter on my knee to watch our black and white TV, and like Phillip
the BBC of course, and hope that she remembered seeing 'The First Man On The
Moon' LIVE. It wasn't easy to see anything of course, but she insists that
she remembers it well.
Yes, those were the days.
Ralph Gibbons
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:44:07 +1000
From: "Brett Harrison" <routier at tpg.com.au>
Subject: [FPSPACE] The Space Sale
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Bonhams is holding a Space Memorabilia Auction full of amazing
one-of-a-kind items for those with the funds.
The PDF catalog alone is a mine of information:
http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=USA&
screen=Catalogue&iSaleNo=17402
--
Brett Harrison
"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."
- Paul Rodriguez
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:07:40 +1000
From: "Brett Harrison" <routier at tpg.com.au>
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Apollo 11
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Born in 1959, I grew up in far-off Tasmania nevertheless surrounded by the
fanfare of the Space Race.
I vividly remember running around the schoolyard playing at being in a
Gemini space capsule. Naturally, being kids, we added aliens & lasers to
the mix.
During the Apollo Program (which we all pronounced "A-pole-oh"), thing
went into high gear.
Kelloggs cereals supplied simple plastic spacecraft kits in every box, and
my mother was pestered constantly to purchase more Corn Flakes!
(They were great little models BTW - a mix of real & paper spec hardware.
I still have some today. Who else remembers them?)
Newspapers & magazines were full of the plans & exploits of NASA, and if
any astronauts had ever visited Tasmania, they would have found themselves
well-known, and lauded as heroes.
Weetbix had a series of cards you could collect, and a book to stick them
into.
Space toys were in all the shops.
On that fateful day (mid-morning, July 21 here), I was at home sick with
the mumps. There I was, sitting on my beanbag chair (a hot item in 1969),
watching the mission in vivid black & white (colour was to come to
Australia 6 years later), thinking, "Ha! Being sick isn't so bad after
all! The kids at school won't be seeing this live!". I was wrong, of
course. At schools all over, everything stopped & students were crowded
into rooms around the few TV sets that schools had, to watch the historic
transmissions.
Being a child, I soon got bored with the whole idea.
I thought that the whole program had taken too long - they'd been talking
about it my whole lifetime, after all!
Only later did I come to realise what a magnificent achievement it was.
I have visited Cape Canaveral, seen Apollo hardware in museums all over
the world, met Apollo astronauts, have a large collection of books on the
subject, and still marvel agape at its scope & complexity.
The common wisdom in Tasmania was "Those Yanks can be a funny lot
sometimes, but when they set their minds to something...wow!"
--
Brett Harrison
"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."
- Paul Rodriguez
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:13:59 +0200
From: "Alex Michael Bonnici" <ambonnici at onvol.net>
Subject: [FPSPACE] We Choose the Moon:a great commemorative Apollo 11
website
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Here is a great commemorative Apollo 11 website suggested by CNN science
correspondent Miles O'Brien -"it tracks the Apollo 11 mission in real time
(+40 years)".
http://www.wechoosethemoon.org/
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