[SOC] Apollo 11 at 40

[Neal Enault]

Alright, while we are reminiscing.......
 
We had gone over to Catalina Island that day for some casual fishing.  After we got back, we were sitting in the bar at the Newport Beach Yacht Club, and the TV was showing that historic moment.
 
I got to thinking it was a long way from throwing bait into the Pacific to walking on the moon.
 
73, 72, whatever, Neal WA6OCP

--- On Wed, 7/22/09, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:


From: Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net>
Subject: [SOC] Apollo 11 at 40
To: soc at mailman.qth.net
Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 4:05 PM


> 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
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