Just a little History Blurb today during the slow times on J.D. Usually I'm pretty good with famous events in history but this one almost slipped by me. 47 years ago tonight I was a young lad watching TV with the family in Northern Wisconsin...
(FoxNews.com) Wednesday marks the 47th anniversary of when NASA astronauts first landed on the moon, a giant leap of an accomplishment that still resonates today, over four and a half decades later.
Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins blasted off from Earth on a massive Saturn V rocket on July 16, 1969. Four days later, the Eagle module landed on the surface with Aldrin and Armstrong inside; Collins stayed behind in the orbiting Columbia craft.
Millions of people back on Earth watched, captivated, as Armstrong was the first down the ladder, then uttered his now-famous line: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Armstrong described the moon’s surface as being “very, very fine-grained as you get close to it— it’s almost like a powder.”
Only 12 people have ever walked on the moon.
Hard to imagine how much the world has changed since then. Now we have to hitch a ride with the Russians to get to outer space. About the only thing I recall from that night is that the picture was really bad, black and white, fuzzy shadows and scratchy audio. But it was happening live from the surface of the moon 250,000 miles away and had never been done before.
(FoxNews.com) Wednesday marks the 47th anniversary of when NASA astronauts first landed on the moon, a giant leap of an accomplishment that still resonates today, over four and a half decades later.
Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins blasted off from Earth on a massive Saturn V rocket on July 16, 1969. Four days later, the Eagle module landed on the surface with Aldrin and Armstrong inside; Collins stayed behind in the orbiting Columbia craft.
Millions of people back on Earth watched, captivated, as Armstrong was the first down the ladder, then uttered his now-famous line: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Armstrong described the moon’s surface as being “very, very fine-grained as you get close to it— it’s almost like a powder.”
Only 12 people have ever walked on the moon.
Hard to imagine how much the world has changed since then. Now we have to hitch a ride with the Russians to get to outer space. About the only thing I recall from that night is that the picture was really bad, black and white, fuzzy shadows and scratchy audio. But it was happening live from the surface of the moon 250,000 miles away and had never been done before.
-Mezz