Comments on: Setting Sail 40 Years Ago Today! Mike Okuda Remembers.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:37:16 +0000

Hope some of you know this already, there is a great website called http://www.wechoosethemoon.org that is recreating the events as they happened 40 years ago. You can even listen to the radio transmissions. Cool stuff. I’m excited even listening to the static on this.

Looking at the videos of the Rocket take off I can’t help feel emotion about it. People say that going to Space is pointless. But we are exploreres by nature. We advance the human race through asking questions, searching for new and better ways, exploring what is beyond our current reach of knowledge. It’s what makes us who we are.

By: barriesuddery

barriesuddery — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:13:55 +0000

Nice one Syd!

By: barriesuddery

barriesuddery — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:25:07 +0000

Good one!

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:19:13 +0000

Ooops sorry for the double post, darn pc glitch.

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:17:06 +0000

Great post; I consider myself lucky to remember it all. Kennedy’s speech and the race to the moon. It was a magical time filled with so much hope, pride and wonderment. A time when America, if not the whole world, held its breath at the same time.

A moment in history, a time of heroes — every last one of them. For they did not just dream of things that never were, and ask why not, they took the leap of faith to make it so.

Over at the Big Picture photo site they have a great set of historical photos as a remembrance: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/remembering_apollo_11.html

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:13:50 +0000

A moment in history, a time of heroes — every last one of them. For they did not just dream of things that never were, and ask why not, they took the leap of faith to make it so.

Over at the Big Picture photo site they have a great set of historical photos as a remembrance: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/remembering_apollo_11.html

By: dougdrexler

dougdrexler — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:20:54 +0000

OMG, Syd… that’s classic!

By: Syd Hughes

Syd Hughes — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:12:05 +0000

The Moon landings were faked, you know.

They were all shot on a soundstage on Mars.

By: Matt Boardman

Matt Boardman — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:29:34 +0000

What a great moment in human history this was and still is. I was born to late to see this, but learning about an accomplishment of this magnitude makes me a little misty eyed at what we can accomplish as human beings if we really put our collective minds to it. Human beings are fantastic beings and it’s sad that we forget that at times.

The thing that saddens me the most is that we have not spent the years between the last moon landing and today going back. I know that it’s not the cheapest thing in the world, but there is so much to gain for it. I look forward to our return to the moon and guarantee I will be glued to the television the day we return. Can you imagine the images that we will get using the visual technologies that are available then?

By: DeanneM

DeanneM — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:19:47 +0000

http://johneaves.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/splashdown-2009-40th-of-apollo-11-celebration/#comment-5887