50 Years Ago: July 1969

[Melmelhunter]

Some girls get fancy flowers, I get fancy tactical hearing protection thank you @EPS a... it wasn't even my birthday

 

[EPS]

Happy Birthday EPS - making it all about you huh

Always I wasn't going to say anything but .
I had a few .
And the 50 year thread got started.
Lol I had to work on the 4th so we had a little party on the 3rd .
Lol I can go back a delete all my post .
And talk about the moon landing
If you want .

 

[Joe13]

Always I wasn't going to say anything but .
I had a few .
And the 50 year thread got started.
Lol I had to work on the 4th so we had a little party on the 3rd .
Lol I can go back a delete all my post .
And talk about the moon landing
If you want .

Just pullin your leg man. Glad you had some time with family and happy belated Independence Day - thanks for keepin it moving even on a holiday

 

[joken]

I came home after four years in the USN. I was 22.

 

[User 1234]

You all may be older than me, but I have an artificial hip and artificial aorta to accompany my gray hair, so heed my wisdom!

 

[RicInOR]

Apollo 11 Launch 7-16

 

[pdempsey1097]

My family took a vacation that year.
SFO helicopter from San Jose to SFO. TWA from San Francisco to St Louis. Car caravan with a pop up trailer to St Augustine Florida.

We watched the Astronauts walk on the moon on a 6" black and white tv screen in our campground on the beach surrounded by at least 50 fellow campers, and toured Cape Canavrral the next day.

I was almost 7, yet remember the trip very well. The Deep South blew me away. I was a California Kid, and saw "white's only" signs, and KKK buildings. I remember thinking "what is wrong with these people?"

 

[RicInOR]

What You Didn't Know About the Apollo 11 Mission.

example:
"The Moon has a smell. It has no air, but it has a smell. "
""Smells like someone's been firing a carbine in here."
"the scent of wet ashes."
"the smell in the air after a firecracker has gone off." "

 

[RicInOR]

Apollo 11




NASA on The Commons

 

[EPS]

Welcome to AARP!

Lol just got this in the mail.

 

[RicInOR]

Lol just got this in the mail.
View attachment 598830 View attachment 598831

Expect these every time you get your mail.

 

[User 1234]

When SNL drops the politics they can be very funny.

 

[RicInOR]

 

[RicInOR]

They Went To the Moon

Reflecting on humanity’s first steps on the lunar surface, fifty years after the epochal event.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[Andy54Hawken]

50 years ago today...I was born...Oh yeah they landed on the moon for me as well... in another three days....
Andy

 

[RicInOR]

50 years ago today...I was born...Oh yeah they landed on the moon for me as well... in another three days....
Andy

Happy Birthday.

 

[KKG]

I was sitting in the Ft. Clayton, CZ NCO Club when the landing took place. We were given the next day off.

For the next few days I was a Transport NCO(aka:Guard) for a Courts Martial. Normally, I was the Mail Clerk and Unit Armourer for the Maintenance Company. So I knew a little something about Carrying and possibly having to "USE" and just when to "USE" my sidearm.

The Court found him guilty, he got 10 years, 6 months total, and a short time later I escorted him to the Airport for his flight to Leavenworth KS.

About a year later I was attending a bit of a Party in Southeast Asia and ran into his Brother, who was an Lt. In charge of the Guard Detail. It's a Small, Small World!

 

[nammac]

I remember watching this unfold on tv, live, I was just a grade schooler, was a very impressionable time for me. The actual moon landing happened on my dads birthday, remember sitting at his feet watching it. Happy Birthday Andy!!!!

 

[Aero Denezol]

I was in Huntsville, AL last year and I got to see the Saturn rocket up close. It is bigger than the Space Shuttle including the boosters. Very impressive.

 

[EPS]

50 years ago today...I was born...Oh yeah they landed on the moon for me as well... in another three days....
Andy

Happy birthday