[SOC] Apollo 11 at 40

[barry whittemore]

I remember it well, i was 10-12 when appollo was on and that was very exciting stuff to a young kid.

Now my son works at JSC for Wyle and worked on the "Colbert Tread mill" now he is working on more stuff for the ISS.

Barry

WB1EDI
 
> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:05:23 -0700
> From: k6dgw at foothill.net
> To: soc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [SOC] Apollo 11 at 40
> 
> > 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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