46 years ago today…
 

Buzz and Niel landed on the moon, one of the greatest accomplishments in human history.

If you've never read some of their biographies it is so well worth it. The stories about the Original 7 and their missions are just amazing and awe inspiring and not just because I grew up next to Cape Kennedy, these were true heroes and just out and out studs.

One of my favorite stories is, to paraphrase, when they were getting ready to leave the moon and one of the breaker switches broke off, the one they needed to ignite the motor to get them off the moon, the only thing they had that they thought might work was a ballpoint pen, they were going to jam it in the hole where the breaker was and short it out, thus firing the motor.

When asked if they were worried that it wouldn't work the reply was not really because the motor never passed one of the tests back on Earth anyway. Yet they went anyway.



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:salute:

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I remember rushing home from the park so we could see it on TV.

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I saw it on a TV set with my Dad in Sears Roebuck in Detroit while my Mom shopped for something....

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The old joke says that if you remember the 60s you weren't there. But this is one thing we who were there do remember, if anything.

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I was in Boy Scout camp. They marched us down to the mess hall to watch. Still a strong supporter of the space program!

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I was only 2, but my dad worked on the program and my mom told me the stories of the Saturn 5 launches, the night launches lit up the streets even 40 miles away where we lived and like all big launches the ground but with the Saturn Vs the windows in the neighborhood all rattled as well. I've lived there through many launches including a couple dozen shuttle launches and never heard the windows rattle.

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I was 13 at the time and I remember watching it with my family. Very cool!

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I was three months old and filling my diapers with sweet goodness.

Got to be one of the greatest accomplishments EVER! You know the Russians were madder than hell!

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I was 2.
I can remember Watergate. It pissed me off cause it cut into my cartoons.

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I wasn't even a *squirt* yet.