Title: Re: On this day..
Post by: hookedonflight on December 25, 2008, 08:53:46 AM
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Title: Re: On this day..
Post by: Oddball on December 25, 2008, 09:50:45 AM
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Title: Re: On this day..
Post by: Rooster Cruiser on December 26, 2008, 02:19:41 PM
I was just a kid at the time, but I well remember the television broadcast of that moment when Apollo 8 came back across the terminator and broadcast this video and the one astronaut reading from scripture. Only trouble is, I cannot recall what he read on that day. It was inspiring though.
Title: Re: On this day..
Post by: Chopper Doc on December 26, 2008, 03:46:54 PM
I can remember as a small boy, sitting in front of our black and white tv (there was no other kind) with my father as the moon landing was broadcast in July of '69: Armstrong steps on the moon, my dad is nearly crying, saying there's a man on the moon, there's a man on the moon.
I found this rather odd since my dad had shown me long before the "man on the moon", and I didn't get the significance. I do now.
By the way, Armstrong established a basic fact of human nature with his famous statement, "A small step for man, a giant leap for mankind." It seems somehow appropriate that the first thing a human should do on the verge of such a momentous occasion (never to be repeated - you don't get a second "first time") is to make a mistake.
Armstrong should have said, "A small step for a man...". How human.
Title: Re: On this day..
Post by: G-man on December 26, 2008, 06:08:30 PM
Of course, there is also another story related to the first trip to the moon..
When NASA was preparing for the Apollo Project, it took the astronauts to a Navajo reservation in Arizona for training.
One day, a Navajo elder and his son came across the space crew walking among the rocks. The elder, who spoke only Navajo, asked a question. His son translated for the NASA people: "What are these guys in the big suits doing?"
One of the astronauts said that they were practicing for a trip to the moon. When his son relayed this comment the Navajo elder got all excited and asked if it would be possible to give to the astronauts a message to deliver to the moon.
Recognizing a promotional opportunity when he saw one, a NASA official accompanying the astronauts said, "Why certainly!" and told an underling to get a tape recorder.
The Navajo elder's comments into the microphone were brief. The NASA official asked the son if he would translate what his father had said. The son listened to the recording and laughed uproariously, but he refused to translate.
So the NASA people took the tape to a nearby Navajo village and played it for other members of the tribe. They too laughed long and loudly but also refused to translate the elder's message to the moon.
Finally, an official government translator was summoned. After he finally stopped laughing the translator relayed the message:
”Watch out for these pricks. They have come to steal your land"
Title: Re: On this day..
Post by: Baradium on January 13, 2009, 11:14:31 PM
I can remember as a small boy, sitting in front of our black and white tv (there was no other kind) with my father as the moon landing was broadcast in July of '69: Armstrong steps on the moon, my dad is nearly crying, saying there's a man on the moon, there's a man on the moon.
I found this rather odd since my dad had shown me long before the "man on the moon", and I didn't get the significance. I do now.
By the way, Armstrong established a basic fact of human nature with his famous statement, "A small step for man, a giant leap for mankind." It seems somehow appropriate that the first thing a human should do on the verge of such a momentous occasion (never to be repeated - you don't get a second "first time") is to make a mistake.
Armstrong should have said, "A small step for a man...". How human.
I believe the current verdict is that he likely said just that.
Been a long time since I read the article on it, but the recording techonology as well as radio transmission technology back then was marginal at best. Short syllables were easily lost. By listening to other conversations (and I believe doing some transmissions themselves saying various statements), there was a determination that he likely did say "a" (which he always insisted he did) and it just didn't make it through the transmission.
