[R-390] [Bulk] Re: OT Apollo 11 Mission

[Bill]

Aside from my date with Betsy....I did watch the landing. I had a TV in 
my apartment in New York.

More seriously I watched in awe. My Father was one of the designers of 
the LEM (Lunar Excursion Module). He was "Mr. Clean". That was what they 
called him at the time. He was a developer of the "Clean Room". He got 
tired of everyone messing with his hydraulic designs by contaminating 
the fluids so he came up with specs to keep things clean. He today is 
responsible for the white coats and hats you see them wearing in some of 
the labs. He worked for Grumman Aircraft on Long Island. He never 
discuss his role and it took years for my sisters and I to get him to 
have a conversation about it. Lots of stories of astronauts after that. 
He took me on a tour of Cape Canaveral in the 1980's.

He became KA5VYD at the age of 71 and a General Class holding W5HJM one 
week before he passed away in 2000.

Bill Marx W2CQ



Lester Veenstra wrote:
> Navy also, stationed at that famous sub tending facility, RAF Edzell
>
>  
> Lester B Veenstra  MØYCM K1YCM
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of Les Locklear
> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 3:03 AM
> To: wb5uom at hughes.net; r-390 at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [R-390] OT Apollo 11 Mission
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> I had fallen asleep in front of the tv, but my wife woke me in time to see
> it. I was 25, a Navy veteran and raising a family.
>
> Les Locklear
> Gulfport, Ms.
> Dx'ing since '57
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>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: wb5uom at hughes.net 
>   To: r-390 at mailman.qth.net 
>   Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 8:03 PM
>   Subject: [R-390] OT Apollo 11 Mission
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>
>   Ok, its off topic, but you guys on here let me learn that the R-390 was
> used in the Apollo Missions.
>
>   So, I am curious, where were YOU - today 40 years ago?
>
>   I myself was 14 and was flying alone on a Braniff Flight over the
> Carribbean Ocean on my way to the Panama Canal Zone when the Pilot announced
> we had landed on the moon.
>
>   David/ WB5UOM 
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