Shame that his achievment was tarnished by his use of EPO

First Lance, then Neil. I bet Alexander Armstrong is kakking himself

Like MF, I have similar memories of the moon landing.

I remember the launch (and a few others around that time), but more than anything I remember my dad coming into my (Thunderbirds wallpaper decorated!) bedroom and getting me up to watch it. Grainy black and white pictures, the wait for the touchdown after the seperation and then the landing followed by those few footsteps.

Then back to bed.

I wouldn't even have been five when it happened, but it remains etched into my brain, and I'd suspect that it's largely responsible for my love of SF ever since.

If only.

Oh, and for the doubters and nay sayers...

You do realise that this all took part at the height of the Cold War, and that the rocket and lander were tracked by both the USSR and Chinese, along with the radio broadcasts?

If there had been any suspicion of duplicitous behaviour, I'm sure one of these would have mentioned it by now....

The other thing that is coming to mind, and watching the old videos on YouTube, is the full understanding of everything that was going on, the stages of the Apollo rocket, the Command Module, the Lunar Module, the fact that only the top bit left the moon and left the landing stage behind, the maouvres that had to be done when in orbit to get the Lunar Module in position, and then finally the tiny capsule that returned to earth...

...all of this explained in painstaking detail on the BBC by James Burke and Patrick Moore who followed the Apollo missions live each evening and brought Science Fact (not Fiction) to us 1960s Space Kids - one of the earlier Apollo missions (8?) was the first manned rocket to orbit the moon and there was a genuine suspense as they went out of radio contact whilst "behind" the moon, all covered live on TV, like others its quite annoying when those who weren't even born suggest that none of this happened, we were there, we saw it live on TV, several brave men from two nations died during the American and Russian space missions, don't try and tell me I didn't see any of this with my own eyes

Spot on.

JerryChicken wrote:several brave men from two nations died during the American and Russian space missions, don't try and tell me I didn't see any of this with my own eyes And don't try telling the second man to walk on the moon that he didn't really do it.

JerryChicken wrote:several brave men from two nations died during the American and Russian space missions, don't try and tell me I didn't see any of this with my own eyes And don't try telling the second man to walk on the moon that he didn't really do it.

Belief that the moon landings were faked should be sufficient justification for being put down in my book.

Achieved one of, if not the greatest single feat in human history ... the more you read about the first moon landing the more you realise what an incredible achievement it was to fly a tin can to the moon and back using a computer that had a lower spec than my microwave (and I own a pretty cheap microwave).

Hopefully something good will come of his passing and along with the current wave of interest in the Curiosity Mars Rover it'll spark humanity in to another push to test the boundaries of our abilities.

Kosh wrote:And don't try telling the second man to walk on the moon that he didn't really do it. RLFANS needs a "Like" button for shiz like this.

Kosh wrote:And don't try telling the second man to walk on the moon that he didn't really do it. RLFANS needs a "Like" button for shiz like this.