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Apollo 11 voice track, data and video
- Thread starter Pugs
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That's a great memory...
I was 12, sitting on the edge of our sofa, (in the only room to have a TV in it) watching with my parents, and possibly some of my older siblings (their actual whereabouts during those years are rather fuzzy). Now my 19 yr old proudly acknowledges his birthday is the day we landed on the moon, several eons earlier....
We were at LTC Boyd's farm just outside Leavenworth, KS sitting on the porch, eating BBQ, hearing the crickets chirp, swatting mosquitoes and watching on a small black & white TV. Every couple of minutes my Dad sent me or my brother to adjust the rabbit ears for a better picture. It was a clear starry night and I remember after the landing, we all left the porch and looked upward toward the stars and moon in pure amazement.
I also remember that just a few hours earlier the Boyd boy, my brother and I had our asses whipped with a riding crop for nearly setting the barn on fire as we tried to roast some frogs with gasoline in a can......
And I remember my foot was also hurting like a son of a bitch, bruised and swollen from a big ass horse stepping on it right after he threw me just before dinner......
Obviously it was a bitter-sweet day.
I also remember that just a few hours earlier the Boyd boy, my brother and I had our asses whipped with a riding crop for nearly setting the barn on fire as we tried to roast some frogs with gasoline in a can......
And I remember my foot was also hurting like a son of a bitch, bruised and swollen from a big ass horse stepping on it right after he threw me just before dinner......
Obviously it was a bitter-sweet day.
That was a very cool representation of the landing. I don't remember that landing itself, but I remember being a kid sitting in front of a black and white television at home watching Neil Armstrong step down off the ladder onto the moon.
I met Gene Kranz when I worked at JSC, he had quite a presence about him. It was interesting to listen to the old timers talk about the program and what they did to get to Apollo 11. For space station we originally wanted to put about 12 computers on board and the guys who had been around during Apollo would give us this look of disbelief and tell the youngsters how they went to the moon with just 8K of RAM. Very smart guys.
I met Gene Kranz when I worked at JSC, he had quite a presence about him. It was interesting to listen to the old timers talk about the program and what they did to get to Apollo 11. For space station we originally wanted to put about 12 computers on board and the guys who had been around during Apollo would give us this look of disbelief and tell the youngsters how they went to the moon with just 8K of RAM. Very smart guys.
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Holy shit! A barn-burner of a frog roast! Wow! Never got to do one of those.
I gotta tell my son I actually know the guy who did.... and also, the unfortunate price he paid!
Haters gonna hate, I guess. This sounds exactly like what young boys are supposed to do.
LTC Boyd...is that who I think it might be?
Probably not. He was an instructor at CGSC Fort Leavenworth with my Dad.