"Oh, the places you'll go..." I was just a 15-year-old punk, hanging out in the dense jungles of suburban Salt Lake City. Our whole family, along with my mother's parents, stayed glued to the TV all day. I remember that NASA had planned for Neil and Buz (one Z or two?) to stay in the lander on the surface for quite some time before opening the hatch to allow Neil to descend the ladder. How surprised we were when NASA decided that there was no need for the wait. (Quite a contrast to today's situation with the shuttle, no?) Two-second delay in communications, grainy B&W video, and wondering for days what the hell Neil actually said when he planted his foot on the surface...certainly was a grand time. One vivid memory was of CBS reporting on a guy who had made a 10,000-to-one bet with a bartender in London during WW2. He bet that the US would land a someone on the Moon by 1970. I may have forgotten the details, but I believe he bet one dollar. He traveled to London and indeed collected on his bet - the barkeep was still alive and apparently working in the same place. So, any bets on when the US will put someone on Mars? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Bauman" <bau@desnews.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 8:23 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Apollo 11 | PS: I mean, thanks to both Guy and Michael! Any other reminiscences | of that day? -- Joe | | _______________________________________________ | Utah-Astronomy mailing list | Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com | http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy | Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com | | ______________________________________________________________________ | This e-mail has been scanned by Cut.Net Managed Email Content Service, using Skeptic(tm) technology powered by MessageLabs. For more information on Cut.Nets Content Service, visit http://www.cut.net | ______________________________________________________________________ | |