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46 years ago today, around the world the people of our planet watched as the first of our species walked on another world. If you're old enough to have been around then, don't you remember where you were and what you were doing when you heard the news? Maybe watching it happen on the television?
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Yes, Mona, I was watching it on tv from a prone position on the couch. I had morning (all day) sickness, being pregnant with my 3rd child ... It was unbelievable and to me it still is.
I don't know if it is a coincidence but last night on tv the movie Contact with Jodie Foster played. DH and I watched it, just as rapt as ever.
To take a line from the movie, if we're alone in the universe, it is a great waste of space. Maybe the quote was from Carl Sagan, who wrote the book of the same name, Contact.
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Susan, you must have mixed feelings about Apollo 11 - historic event and wanting to throw up. Bleh.
I was in Italy, in Salerno, and it was in the middle of the night. But still lots of people watching. I guess now if there were something that exciting, people would follow the Twitter feed on their smart phones. (Except for me, who still has an intellectually-challenged phone!)
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On today's date - July 24 - in 1969, the Apollo 11 crew returned to Earth. Triumphantly, I suppose, though there was something rather undignified about landing in the ocean, being fished out by the Navy, put into "biological isolation garments" and then quarantined!
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Here is an infographic about the Apollo 11 mission. (Click to enlarge.) You can see in the diagram of the lunar module that it has a descent engine and an ascent engine. The bottom part with the legs made for a stable structure while the astronauts were on the Moon. When they were ready to leave, it provided a launch platform for the ascent stage. At each of the six Apollo landing sites there is an abandoned descent stage. A few years ago the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, put into a low orbit, photographed all of the sites. In Exploring the Lunar Landing Sites astronomy writer Ian Ridpath gives us a guided tour.
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