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"Imagine being a heterosexual white male in Britain at this moment. How bad is that. Everything you say is racist, everything you say is homophobic. The Woke community have really f****d this country."
At 9 I wasn’t allowed to stay up very late but my Mum wrote me a note of what happened. Which I had forgotten about until today thinking about this.
its odd that we just assumed that space travel would be the norm and by now we have bases on the moon, mars and be on the way to god knows where by 2021
My first memories of space were the various shuttle launches / returns. Went to see the shuttle at Stansted Airport when it was brought over on the back of a jumbo. My bro-in-law worked there so we got up close(ish) which was pretty cool for a teenager :-)
This Mars landing reminds me of watching all the Apollo moon ones on 21:00 - Feb 18 by Keno
its odd that we just assumed that space travel would be the norm and by now we have bases on the moon, mars and be on the way to god knows where by 2021
Yes, back in 1986 with a child’s optimism and lack of perspective on time I thought man might have got to Mars by 2000. That was the scale of the Apollo programme though but those things don’t happen all that fast very often.
Quite staggering that there were 66 years from the Wright brothers’ first fight to the moon landing. The same as 1955 to this year.
This Mars landing reminds me of watching all the Apollo moon ones on 21:06 - Feb 18 by Steve_M
Yes, back in 1986 with a child’s optimism and lack of perspective on time I thought man might have got to Mars by 2000. That was the scale of the Apollo programme though but those things don’t happen all that fast very often.
Quite staggering that there were 66 years from the Wright brothers’ first fight to the moon landing. The same as 1955 to this year.
that is a staggering achievement
perhaps also worth noting that without the developments by the Nazi in rocketry in WW2 the Apollo mission probably wouldn't have happened
This Mars landing reminds me of watching all the Apollo moon ones on 21:10 - Feb 18 by Keno
that is a staggering achievement
perhaps also worth noting that without the developments by the Nazi in rocketry in WW2 the Apollo mission probably wouldn't have happened
I think it more likely that the war speeded up the development of space rocketry and the likes of Von Braun were a big part of that (the Soviets took advantage of Nazi scientists too, those just had less choice about going). The Cold War also made it a national priority in the US, Sputnik hurt the national pride a lot.
Not that there wasn’t American input into NASA, Robert Goddard was something of a genius:
This Mars landing reminds me of watching all the Apollo moon ones on 21:16 - Feb 18 by Steve_M
I think it more likely that the war speeded up the development of space rocketry and the likes of Von Braun were a big part of that (the Soviets took advantage of Nazi scientists too, those just had less choice about going). The Cold War also made it a national priority in the US, Sputnik hurt the national pride a lot.
Not that there wasn’t American input into NASA, Robert Goddard was something of a genius:
This Mars landing reminds me of watching all the Apollo moon ones on 21:10 - Feb 18 by Keno
that is a staggering achievement
perhaps also worth noting that without the developments by the Nazi in rocketry in WW2 the Apollo mission probably wouldn't have happened
Werner Von Braun and Dornberger. People who happily used slave labour in abundance. The Americans re-wrote their past and the rest is history.
Putting that aside, the moon landings were a staggering achievement. My first memory was Apollo 8. I found it fascinating from then on. I never realised just how dangerous it was until reading about it in later years. Some achievement, as is the stuff they’re doing at the moment.
I love exploration, despite it appearing pointless at times.
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This Mars landing reminds me of watching all the Apollo moon ones on 21:30 - Feb 18 with 945 views
This Mars landing reminds me of watching all the Apollo moon ones on 21:06 - Feb 18 by Steve_M
Yes, back in 1986 with a child’s optimism and lack of perspective on time I thought man might have got to Mars by 2000. That was the scale of the Apollo programme though but those things don’t happen all that fast very often.
Quite staggering that there were 66 years from the Wright brothers’ first fight to the moon landing. The same as 1955 to this year.
One factor is the development of technology. It is no longer necessary to send humans to Mars in order to explore. Semi-autonomous robots can achieve the same results, without the necessity of heavy and complicated life support systems. And you can leave them to wander around for as long as the power supplies hold out.
This Mars landing reminds me of watching all the Apollo moon ones on 21:06 - Feb 18 by Steve_M
Yes, back in 1986 with a child’s optimism and lack of perspective on time I thought man might have got to Mars by 2000. That was the scale of the Apollo programme though but those things don’t happen all that fast very often.
Quite staggering that there were 66 years from the Wright brothers’ first fight to the moon landing. The same as 1955 to this year.
It the cold war had continued there is a chance it might have happened but by the the Russians were bankrupt and without anyone pushing them there was no real reason for the US to continue at such a pace.
We are lucky that we are now in a possible second golden age of spaceflight with private companies pushing technology where larger government organisations were afraid to invest. Our technology is just vastly better as well enabling so much more to be done, it's incredible what they did in the 60's and 70's with the little computing power they had.
SB
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SB - (not Simon Batford)
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This Mars landing reminds me of watching all the Apollo moon ones on 21:55 - Feb 18 with 893 views
My dear departed mother used to revel in telling people that at the moment Armstrong sets foot on the moon I took my first dump on a potty rather than in a nappy.
Mum was a bit nuts, so many of her tales needed a hefty pinch of salt.
This Mars landing reminds me of watching all the Apollo moon ones on 00:01 - Feb 19 by Pendejo
My dear departed mother used to revel in telling people that at the moment Armstrong sets foot on the moon I took my first dump on a potty rather than in a nappy.
Mum was a bit nuts, so many of her tales needed a hefty pinch of salt.
Sandi Toksvig's moon landing story is astonishing. As an eleven year old girl, she was with her father (a renowned Danish journalist) in Mission Control Houston for the landing. As the module door opened she realised the woman next to was getting very nervous. The precocious Sandi said 'you look nervous; would you like to hold my hand?'
'Thank you,' said the woman, taking Sandi's hand as Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, 'I am a bit nervous. My boss has just set foot on the moon.'
As Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, young Sandi Toksvig was holding his secretary's hand.
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