[SOC] Apollo 11 at 40

[Fred Jensen]

> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:41:22 +1000
> From: "Ian C. Purdie" <ianpurdie at integritynet.com.au>
> 
> Strictly for those of my generation who can identify with this:
> 
> http://www.smh.com.au//ffximage/2009/07/21/220709editoon_gallery__600x350,0.jpg
> 
> I have no trouble relating.

I was about 2 months into my 29th year, a Captain in the US Air Force in 
Houston TX, assigned to NASA, and working on Apollo.  It was "sort of" 
exciting.  I still have my Apollo 13 Mission Control badge, another nail 
biter.  Why I don't still have the badges for 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, and 14 
is testament to the total absence of common sense my wife tells me I 
often exhibit.  None of our four kids [38 - 41] can really remember a 
time when humans had not visited the moon.

Neil sat down with a couple of us in the cafeteria a few months after 
they got back.  I told him, "When I look up at the moon at night, 
sometimes I don't believe you and Buzz were there."  He replied, 
"Sometimes, neither do I."

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2009 Cal QSO Party  3-4 Oct 2009
- www.cqp.org