Forty-two years ago today
 

Apollo 11 Landed on the Moon July 20, 1969

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Forty-two years ago today, the Eagle landed.

The anniversary of the world's first landing on the moon comes as America's last shuttle continues soaring for one more day before the nation that put Neil Armstrong on the moon will have no manned space program.

Apollo 11 lifted off on July 16, spending the next four days speeding nearly a quarter of a million miles toward the moon, landing on July 20, 1969.

Hours after the landing, Armstrong took the most famous "small step" in history.

The landing was the culmination of America's first manned efforts in space: Mercury, Gemini and Apollo.

Five more successful landings followed, and man last left the moon in December 1972.

Skylab and a space meeting with a Soviet spacecraft in orbit followed in the 1970s, and the shuttle has been America's program since Columbia's first liftoff in 1981.

With the International Space Station completed, the shuttle fleet -- Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour -- are destined for museums.

The future is, well, up in the air.

President Obama has directed NASA to concentrate on landing on an asteroid or Mars, scrubbing former President George W. Bush's plan to return to the moon.

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ya, in a GOD DAMN STUDIO!

No, we didn't/ Teedub

I remember sitting in front of the b&w tv watching Walter Cronkite wipe a tear from his eye.....or I think he did anyway.

Where's my flying car????

Really?

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If you really want one, you can place your order, here: http://www.terrafugia.com/order.html

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I still feel bad that they left that fourth astronaut, Randy whatsisname, on the moon. It's amazing that they never checked the back seat when they took off.

Actually, I think his name was Joe.

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Happy Birth.Oh never mind

Buzz Aldrin does NOT approve of this thread!

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Gots to love me some Buzz Aldrin :)

Armstrong really was/is cool under pressure. The POS flight computer was taking them into a crater that was filled with VW Bug-sized rocks, so Armstrong took over manually. He landed with less than thirty seconds of fuel left.

Here Armstrong is in the LLTV, which they used to train for the lunar landing. If he had ejected .5 seconds later, he would have been killed:

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Holy Shit you're old.

I think I'll pop in my For All Mankind blu-ray tonight. Seems like a proper time to re-watch it.

I must be old too. I watched it as well.

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Poor Captain Cisco. He can't find his flying car.

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