It's coming up in 3 weeks, I do believe. Some of you spacenerds should check out the June/July Texas Monthly, whole thing is about Texas and Space. Yall know they just got done restoring Mission Control, right? Looks just like it did back then. https://arstechnica.com/science/201...wly-restored-historic-apollo-mission-control/
Lmao anniversary of it being faked. Why do you think we’ve never been back? TV and Hd quality would expose those frauds Spoiler Toycen gives his nod of approval
Bunch of our dads or grandads (and some moms or grandmoms) were involved in all that. 410,000 Americans basically full-time at its peak. I really recommend the new Apollo 11 documentary. It's all archival footage with no modern voiceover. I've posted a run-down on books before (and it's, um, of great interest to me), but here ya go. 28 new books out. Amazing to sit back and see exactly what all that hard work realized. I've been super lucky to talk to a bunch of those elderly guys, friends of my dad and what-not.
The Apollo 11 documentary was fascinating in its authenticity. And if you're a real enthusiast, check out Apollo 11 in real time, which contains over 11,000 hours of audio from mission control. You can relive the entire mission from one minute before launch, or jump right into it, real time, fifty years ago. https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/mobile/
LOL. I saw Buzz Aldrin at a book signing. We were instructed not to make conversation, let him sign our book and move along (the line was crazy-long). He was very serious and stoic so we didn't say anything but "Thank you" to him. However, the guy behind us simply said "you've got a great left hook" and Buzz Aldrin started cracking up laughing. It was actually pretty hilarious at the time because everyone was so serious and this guy completely broke him down with one sentence. His handler was not amused at all though.
The Chronicle, of all places, has had really excellent coverage of the Apollo anniversary. Check out the real-time link, for instance. https://www.chron.com/local/space/mission-moon/
Good read for those that question why we haven't been back to the moon. Had Nixon decided to keep funding NASA with the same budget, no doubt there would have been moon bases and/or maned missions to Mars in the 1980's. Instead they chose the much cheaper low earth orbit Space Shuttle program and drastically cut NASA's budget. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lo...get-realities-limit-NASA-options-14045367.php
To be sure though, LBJ was making big cuts before he left office in '68. At the time of the landing, the majority of Americans surveyed did NOT think it was worth the money (hard to believe now maybe) and Vietnam was eating money and lives and attention like crazy. I just think Nixon is too easy a foil. America was, overall, really done w space as of 1970. I don't think the appetite was there, definitely not in Congress.
Whether it was realistic, politically, at the time is another story, but fans of the program and strong fans of science fiction, like me, expected a continuation of what we were doing. Perhaps not at the budget NASA had been given to “beat the Soviet Union,” but a large enough budget for a good sized base on the Moon, a “permanent” space station, and an eventual Mars expedition that would have had us there 20 or so years ago. It all seemed possible at the time to many of us. The technology was there, and the path to building on that technology, but it turned out that the will wasn’t.