Congratulations of course, to Neil, Buzz and Michael, this being the 40th Anniversary of the first landing on the moon.
Raspberries and a cactus up the anus, to all the conspiracy fruitcakes that reckon it never happened. They are endlessly tedious and collectively have a negative brain cell count. The day Buzz punched one in the face (the jerk sprang out at Buzz and called him a liar, a thief and a cheat) was a great day for Truth, Justice, and the American Way! :-)
I do have a 40 year old grudge with Neil though.
He was so hyped up after landing that he insisted on skipping a three hour rest break scheduled for before the moonwalk. NASA caved and he and Buzz went out early. And I missed seeing the whole thing, as I was stuck in a compulsory school exam. My school refused to reschedule the exam just because of a little something happening on the Moon... It was all over before I got home. I couldn't see anything at school, as my school didn't have any televisions...
"Next time for sure!" I thought.
Nope. Al Bean buggered the Apollo 12 video camera by pointing it at the sun just after he and Pete Conrad started their moonwalk.
"Next time for sure!" I thought.
Nope. Apollo 13 never landed, but that's another story.
"Next time for sure!" I thought.
AMAZING! FINALLY! Live TV from the moon with Apollo 14! Wee...!
Yeah, being in Year 5, we were stuck in the back of the assembly hall to see the (very fuzzy) b/w broadcast. It was a few months before it was discovered I needed glasses, but when I caught a repeat of the walk a few years later, the images were still fuzzy!
ReplyDeleteYes, rather fuzzy pictures - what modern folks fail to realise is that in 1969 television cameras were as big as a refrigerator. The first Apollo camera was seen as a miracle of miniaturisation being only the size of a shoe box. The pictures still sucked though...! :-)
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