#neil armstrong
A First Day Cover from Sept 9, 1969 commemorating the Apollo 11 moon landing. There’s a post stamp from the July 20 moon landing & a beautiful 10 cent stamp featuring Neil Armstrong stepping down upon the lunar surface. So many great space-themed stamps were designed by the USPS during the space age.
Practice makes perfect. Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin go through the steps with the Lunar Lander during preparation for Apollo 11, 1969. Backup crew for the first mission to the moon were Jim Lovell, Fred Haise & William Anders. Armstrong & Aldrin spent 21 & ½ hours at Tranquility Base before joining Command Module Pilot Michael Collins who was in lunar orbit in Columbia.
Sorry Romney. I call bullshit. You do NOT get to get doey eyed talking about the accomplishments of the Federal Government Apollo missions (and by extension, Mercury and Gemini space programs) supported by the tax payers while at the same time calling for smaller government, reducing spending on space exploration, and calling for lower taxes.
Bullshit. Don’t shove an American flag up science’s a
We, as a nation, through taxes and government coordination did that. WE ALL built that. And we didn’t do it for capitalism, we didn’t do it to make money. We didn’t do it for share holders, or for a return on investment. We did it for national pride (and to scare the Russians) and we did it to learn.
And waiving Neil Armstrong around like a fucking political puppet? I’m seething. I’m SEETHING.
If the likes of Romney were in office in 1960 - not a Democrat - we would not have gone to the Moon. There wouldn’t have been money for it. Neil Armstrong would not have walked on the moon.
I want to smash my fist into someone’s groin.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/30/transcript-mitt-romney-speech-at-rnc/
On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy survived an attempt on his life which left his wife, Jacqueline, dead. Crippled, Kennedy resigned the presidency, but continued to be influential on American politics even as Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the office.
Almost six years later, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Joe Muldoon walked on the moon, leading Kennedy, alongside President Richard Nixon, to push the boundaries farther, slashing the budget for additional moon landings and reallocating the resources for manned missions to Mars.
NASA spends the next few decades improving the Saturn V rocket, including using Skylabs A and B (the latter of which is unofficially dubbed “Moonlab”) to make improvements to the command module in space. The Mars mission project Ares uses propulsion systems from the Saturn V-B rockets and the Skylab habitat module for a long-duration Mars trip. Descending from the Ares command module, the Challenger excursion module finally touched down at Mangala Valles, Mars on March 27, 1986.
(Voyage by Stephen Baxter, 1996)
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