Posted by
michael
on from the closeups-of-the-sound-stage dept.
GoneGaryT writes "Wow! NASA has pulled another set of photographs, this time of Apollo 11's trip, out of the freezer and digitized them. They are glorious. I'm just checking out the first ever 'Earthrise' sequence and they are beautiful." I'll cherry-pick a few for you: 1, 2, 3.
Keeping Space Alive
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artlu
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NASA needs to do more to remind Americans of the importance of space to the future of mankind. Things like this that get Nasa's name back in the public eye by showing objects of celestial beauty will hopefully remind people of what is out there.
Re:Keeping Space Alive
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Anonymous Coward
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I don't mean to troll, but why exactly should our government be spending billions of dollars on space when that money is desperately needed here on Earth? Seems to me that things like education, medical research, and cleaning up our planet should be higher priorities than space. If you can actually give me a good reason why we should be spending so much tax money on space, I'd like to hear it, as I've never heard one before.
Re:There is an american flag on the moon.
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Anonymous Coward
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With German WWII technology, a German leader and lots of Canadian engineers that you guys conveniently got for cheap when Avro had to cancel the Arrow!
Why the Hell not?
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kippy
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Seriously, why shouldn't the US plant a flag there? Spare me the namby-pamby citizen-of-the-world crap. We invested billions into the project. We had our best minds working on it and it took the bravery of not only the astronauts to sit on top of a bomb but the fortitude of an entire nation to support it to the end.
I'm sorry everyone else but this is a clear instance of the US setting a noble goal and kicking ass at it. We deserve to be proud and make note of who it was who did it.
Re:Why the Hell not?
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kippy
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Please read your history. The NASA program did employ Werner Van Braun but he was a black sheep to some extent and didn't really contribute as much as people tend to think.
The rockets were surplus US Air force ICBMs for Mercury and Gemini and Apollo was launched on American rockets so I'm not sure how the German rocket thing holds up.
As for British brains, who were these brits that the US hired?
A capacity for quotation is not the same as forming an argument.
Re:Why the Hell not?
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kippy
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And who built the Atlas rockets? those were from the US air force.
Roketry was only a part of the space program and Van Braun didn't really contribute much more than rocketry.
Van Braun might have been a good rocket scientist but his ideas for space exploration were unworkable. His single craft plan for the Moon mission was thrown out. His plan for a Mars mission was backwards. In fact it's because of his Mars plan that any Mars mission is automatically labeled with a trillion dollar price tag by the press.
Re:Buzz's attitude...Neil's professionalism
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ausoleil
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I knew Neil Armstrong, albeit as a young child.
"Rock star"? Neil certainly was not that. He was (and is) an exceptionally gifted engineer and pilot, and a man who did the job the best he could. He was also an humble man, as evidenced by his lack of visibility in the years after Apollo 11.
Neil was a brilliant man doing a tough, dangerous job. He did so cooly and with professionalism. That's why he was America's best civilian test pilot prior to his stint in NASA. That's also why he was the best choice to lead Apollo 11 into the rare air where the great explorers are.
Few people today realize the danger and risk that was involved in the moon missions. Think of this: look at how far technology, from it's most basic levels of materials science and mathematics have evolved *since* 1969. The Saturn V was arguably the most powerful machine built in all of recorded human history (that was not a bomb) and to this day, no launch vehicle has ever matched it's sheer lifting capaibility. It had the power of a small atomic weapon, and three men would climb on top and strap their butts to it. All with less computing power than your car.
They did it, and they did it with bravery. Not the kind of foolish bravery associated with a glory hound, but the kind of quiet bravery that marks a true HERO in every sense of the world.
I was there, and I said goodbye to Apollo 11 from five miles away as she lifted into the skies of a sunny Florida morning. I knew one of the men on the machine, and I had four family members who had important jobs that got them to the moon and back safely.
I am proud of them all, and they all had their roles. Aldrin may have been seeking glory, that is for history to decide. Nevertheless, the best choice was Armstrong, and as a result, his name belongs with Columbus, Erikkson and other great explorers who opened the doorway for all humanity to place that none had been before.
Perhaps it will take a century or more for history to truly appreciate the scope of that they did.
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NASA needs to do more to remind Americans of the importance of space to the future of mankind. Things like this that get Nasa's name back in the public eye by showing objects of celestial beauty will hopefully remind people of what is out there.
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With German WWII technology, a German leader and lots of Canadian engineers that you guys conveniently got for cheap when Avro had to cancel the Arrow!
Seriously, why shouldn't the US plant a flag there? Spare me the namby-pamby citizen-of-the-world crap. We invested billions into the project. We had our best minds working on it and it took the bravery of not only the astronauts to sit on top of a bomb but the fortitude of an entire nation to support it to the end.
I'm sorry everyone else but this is a clear instance of the US setting a noble goal and kicking ass at it. We deserve to be proud and make note of who it was who did it.
Blaze a trail to the New World
My God someone please stop modding this.
I knew Neil Armstrong, albeit as a young child.
"Rock star"? Neil certainly was not that. He was (and is) an exceptionally gifted engineer and pilot, and a man who did the job the best he could. He was also an humble man, as evidenced by his lack of visibility in the years after Apollo 11.
Neil was a brilliant man doing a tough, dangerous job. He did so cooly and with professionalism. That's why he was America's best civilian test pilot prior to his stint in NASA. That's also why he was the best choice to lead Apollo 11 into the rare air where the great explorers are.
Few people today realize the danger and risk that was involved in the moon missions. Think of this: look at how far technology, from it's most basic levels of materials science and mathematics have evolved *since* 1969. The Saturn V was arguably the most powerful machine built in all of recorded human history (that was not a bomb) and to this day, no launch vehicle has ever matched it's sheer lifting capaibility. It had the power of a small atomic weapon, and three men would climb on top and strap their butts to it. All with less computing power than your car.
They did it, and they did it with bravery. Not the kind of foolish bravery associated with a glory hound, but the kind of quiet bravery that marks a true HERO in every sense of the world.
I was there, and I said goodbye to Apollo 11 from five miles away as she lifted into the skies of a sunny Florida morning. I knew one of the men on the machine, and I had four family members who had important jobs that got them to the moon and back safely.
I am proud of them all, and they all had their roles. Aldrin may have been seeking glory, that is for history to decide. Nevertheless, the best choice was Armstrong, and as a result, his name belongs with Columbus, Erikkson and other great explorers who opened the doorway for all humanity to place that none had been before.
Perhaps it will take a century or more for history to truly appreciate the scope of that they did.