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Moon landing hoax again...

Some more rarely (IMO a better way of refering to it) seen footage is in the movie For All Mankind http://imdb.com/title/tt0097372/ . You see much more of the mundane Trans-Lunar & Trans-Earth part of the journey. If you get the Criterion DVD you can hear my favorite astronaut (and personal hero) Gene Cernan, the last man on the moon, on the commentary track talk about the Apollo program from the inside.
 
Was Gene Cernan the guy who had them put propellers on the mission caps? If so he is my hero too. That guy had a sense of humour. Something a bit lacking in most of the other Astronauts.
I absolutely loved that docu-drama series "From The Earth To The Moon".
 
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Brainache said:
Was Gene Cernan the guy who had them put propellers on the mission caps? If so he is my hero too. That guy had a sense of humour. Something a bit lacking in most of the other Astronauts.
I absolutely loved that docu-drama series "From The Earth To The Moon".
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Nah, that was Pete Conrad (Apollo 12), his first words from the moon "Whoopee! That was a small step for Neil, but a big one for me." He was priceless.
 
Loss Leader said:
I like the fact that you think enough of him to call him Dr. but not enough of him to call him Edwin instead of Buzz.

Edit: Holy heck, the man changed his name to Buzz in 1988. I guess going to the moon does make you crazy.
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Nah - Buzz is a cool name. I think he is a very cool guy.

BTW - I want to see the Robot / Foundation series made into a huge (because you can't compress it) series.
 
Loss Leader said:
I like the fact that you think enough of him to call him Dr. but not enough of him to call him Edwin instead of Buzz.

Edit: Holy heck, the man changed his name to Buzz in 1988. I guess going to the moon does make you crazy.
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On his answering machine, he says (or at least at one point used to say) "Hi, this is Buzz..."

(I know because I tried to call him)
 
One of my favorite things about Buzz Aldrin is that he continues to claim that he said the first words broadcast from the moon. There was this twelve foot piece of wire sticking out of the bottom of the lander and when it made contact with the surface, a light came on to tell the astronauts that they were there. Aldrin said, "Contact light." He maintains that these were the first words.

In any event, they were not the first words safely broadcast from the moon. After they were down, Aldrin and Armstrong said a whole bunch of stuff to each other about systems and shutting stuff off and readings and such for about a minute.

And they were not the first words purposefully broadcast from the moon to the earth. That was Armstrong.

Isn't it amazing that everybody just agrees that the first words said on the moon mean "the first words purposefully broadcast for the hearing of people on earth after rendering the craft safe on the moon"?
 
Brainache said:
Buzz wanted to say a prayer or something didn't he?
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He took Communion on the moon. The Apollo 8 crew had gotten in trouble for the reading from Genesis the previous year, so it was a private thing. While on the Moon he asked (paraphrasing here) everyone to reflect on the event, then he read the service to himself with the mike off. This is according to Andrew Chaikin's book, for which the HBO miniseries is based.

The coolest thing about Buzz is when he punched the CT nut. When you personally know people who sacrificed and in some cases died in pursuit of going to the Moon, I think it would be understandable to let your temper get the better of you when someone says it never happened. In fact I think he showed incredible restraint.
 
CptColumbo said:
He took Communion on the moon. The Apollo 8 crew had gotten in trouble for the reading from Genesis the previous year, so it was a private thing. While on the Moon he asked (paraphrasing here) everyone to reflect on the event, then he read the service to himself with the mike off. This is according to Andrew Chaikin's book, for which the HBO miniseries is based.

The coolest thing about Buzz is when he punched the CT nut. When you personally know people who sacrificed and in some cases died in pursuit of going to the Moon, I think it would be understandable to let your temper get the better of you when someone says it never happened. In fact I think he showed incredible restraint.
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Yep. I think there should be more people like Buzz and maybe these CTs wouldn't get so far in the first place.
 
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