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Nothing can ever compare to July 20, 1969<br /><br />"Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed"<br />"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>
Amen. That's going to be a hard one to beat. Although, Apollo 13, "Houston, we have a problem" also stands out as one of our greatest, most heroic examples of overcoming problems, and bringing our explorers home safely.<br /><br />Rae
True, but I have a hard time calling terror filled days a favorite. A triumph of human engineering yes. Interestingly, that mission is not burned in my mind though, my own memories are vague, I learned more from the movie than I remembered.<br />For Apollo 11, though, every moment is still clear in my mind, from working at Mr. Bee's (I even remember which table I was cleaning) and hearing the landing, to staying up that night to watch MEN WALK ON THE MOON. Of course, my memories are in black and white <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>
Another Apollo 13 mission quote:<br /><br />Chris Kraft: This could be the worst disaster NASA's ever faced.<br />Gene Kranz: With all due respect, sir, I believe this is gonna be our finest hour. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis: </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>
I suppose this one should be said as well. It's not strictly a mission or astronaut comment, but...<br /><br />John F.Kennedy: We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis: </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>
In the beginning.... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>
Agreed. But, my question has always been What are the "other things?" Anyone know?<br /><br />Rae
Probably pursuing an endless conflict with the USSR, I'd wager. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis: </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>
I have two launches that come to mind. SincI live in Central Forida I have watched the important ones up close.<br /><br />The first was an Apollo moon mission that launched at night (I think it was one of the last ones) I was at New Smyrna Beach as far south as a car could get on the beach. When the Saturn V lifted off it was like sunrise on the beach. All the pelicans and seagulls woke up and started flying and squawking. The Saturn V took longer to build up momentum than the Shuttle and it seemed to hang there for the longest time.<br /><br />The second in my memory was the first shuttle launch. I watched it from the Indian River in Titusville after three previous attempts that had been aborted everyone was really tense about whether it was going to actually lift off. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em><font size="2">Bob DeWoody</font></em> </div>
Apollo 8 on Christmas Eve. Craters sliding past the window on live TV.<br /><br />Apollo 11, of course. <br /><br />Those first Viking 1 images from the surface of Mars. Red skies. Wow! <br /><br />The amazing first-ever images from Voyagers 1 and 2. <br /><br />The STS-41D/Discovery launch of August 30, 1984. I watched this one from the LC 39 Press Site. I'll never forget the ground quivering beneath my feet *before* the sound arrived. <br /><br />The Mars rovers. The images of those rover tracks receding further into the distance every day for years. I'm still amazed at how little people seem to appreciate how difficult these fantastically successful missions were to pull off.<br /><br /> - Ed Kyle
This is Nasa - Esa moment.<br /><br />I'm too young to remember anything of the Golden age of Apollo, Pioneer, Voyager and so on but I think I'll have to go for Huygens, such a long wait then the fear of possible missing telemetry and then the first pics coming in and what pictures they were.<br /><br />Coupled with Cassini, what a mission!!! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#800080">"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring" - <strong>Chuck Palahniuk</strong>.</font> </div>
If you exclude Apollo 11, I think the moment of the first Viking lander picture from Mars was pretty huge. The technical accomplishment was just fantastic and the thought of the picture coming from the surface of such a faraway planet was just awesome.<br /><br />Now that we have had so much success with the rovers, it is easy to forget how monumental that was at the time. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>The Disenfranchised Curmudgeon</p><p>http://tonyplank.blogspot.com/ </p> </div>
<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>Nothing can ever compare to July 20, 1969<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br />Actually, in the overall scheme of things, I think the Sputnik launch was probably the most important milestone in space exploration. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>________________</p><p>Repent! Repent! The technological singularity is coming!</p> </div>
Agreed, but I don't remember that one. Though sometimes it seems like I do. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>The Disenfranchised Curmudgeon</p><p>http://tonyplank.blogspot.com/ </p> </div>
My favorite mission, by far, is the current MER rovers. Opportunity may be on the verge of a staggering, berry-related discovery. The rovers have gone above and beyond anyone's expectations. <br /><br />After that, everything Hubble and Viking landers. <br /><br />Josh <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <div align="center"><em>We need a first generation of pioneers.</em><br /></div> </div>
Apollo 8:<br />Inspired my pursuit of graphical realistic as possible for me, space stories.<br /><br />Apollo 11:<br />A great exploration, probably the greatest moment in exploration history and one I was alive to witness.<br /><br />Viking 1 & 2:<br />Already writing and illustrating human mission to mars stories. Had to change them when it became evident mars had a pinkish sky. My previous illustrations were of a dark blue sky consistent with scientific expectation.<br /><br />This mission carried a slight downside as well. I'd hoped that life would be discovered and confirmed. This didn't happen.<br /><br />Pioneer 10, 11 Voyagers 1, 2:<br />Transformed illustrations of the gas giant worlds I recall from elementary school to real places often with many suprises.<br /><br />STS-1:<br />The doors seemed to be opening for the everyday man to go into space. The mission and what the shuttle was eventually able to do was inspiring but the eventual fading of the promise of routine affordable spaceflight was the downside.<br /><br />Hubble Telescope:<br />A revolution in astronomy. Hubble telescope enabled a quantum leap in astronomical knowledge.<br /><br />Pathfinder:<br />A long awaited return to mars that was a whole new ballgame once mobility around the landing site was made possible.<br /><br />ISS:<br />Despite misgivings about cost and reason...ISS is still a triumph in human ingenuity across the board. And one that demonstrates not just American ingenuity, but that of other nations as well.<br /><br />MERs:<br />Unrivalled in detail of both science, imagery, and mobile to boot. Not only that, one of the longest most productive planetary missions in NASAs history.<br /><br />I'm sure I left a few out but there are actually too many equally inspiring moments and achievments but I singled out those I recall best. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>
Yes, the Christmas reading makes the top 5 for sure. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>
One other event that really sticks out in my mind (complete with images) was the Voyager 2 flyby of Triton.<br />I remember as the images came down line by line. (I wonder if that really happened?) Everyone at the mission headquarters and myself were dumbfounded. It was nothing like what was expected, or anything that was ever seen before.<br /><br />Still, too bad the younguns around here were not around for Apollo. You can never get the feeling we old f**ts did witnessing it live by reading about it. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>
Here's hoping that the "younguns" get to experience a little of what we old "f*rts" felt when NASA lands on the moon again later next decade.
It will be a great moment when I can gaze up at the moon with the knowledge there are human beings living and working on its surface! A feeling that I, having be born a decade and a half after the first moon landing, have never had the fortune to feel for myself. Can't wait!!
<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>It will be a great moment when I can gaze up at the moon with the knowledge there are human beings living and working on its surface!<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br />Yes, having a permanent base on the Moon will certainly feel nice for us down here on Earth. It will be a very powerful moment when we can look up at a new moon and see a dot of light on its surface. I only hope no one has the audacity to paint 'Coca-Cola' over the face of the Moon anytime soon. 
<div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>________________</p><p>Repent! Repent! The technological singularity is coming!</p> </div>
<div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>________________</p><p>Repent! Repent! The technological singularity is coming!</p> </div>And Mars after that?<br /><br />Heres hoping <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#800080">"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring" - <strong>Chuck Palahniuk</strong>.</font> </div>
Well...<i>after</i> that. Yes. As in, someday, but we really need to get a Moon base first (and also possibly a space elevator, if we can). <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>________________</p><p>Repent! Repent! The technological singularity is coming!</p> </div>
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