Happy Lunar Landing Day

[GWguy]

Considering what they had to work with in 1969, it was an amazing feat.

PBS has been chronicling the events over the past week or two. Lots of little tidbits that, as a kid, kinda went over my head back then.

 

[Goldenhawk]

This is a superb podcast, if you're interested in learning a LOT more about the Apollo 11 landing.

BBC World Service - 13 Minutes to the Moon - Downloads

Podcast downloads for 13 Minutes to the Moon

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Yooper]

What a day that was. I was an absolutely enthralled teenager at the time. It was momentous, it was marvelous, it was astounding. One of the greatest days I have had the joy of living through!

Also, wanted to add this (<3 minutes reading):

The Moon @ 50

Lots of deserved recollections on the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing over the last few weeks and months. There's not much need to repeat the main themes of the scientific marvel or adventurous spirit of that glorious enterprise. Some political aspects of Apollo, however, have not...

www.powerlineblog.com

Here are two of the spots that caught my eye:

Specifically, the liberal attitude toward the moon landing is emblematic of how American liberalism had lost confidence in itself and sunk into its guilt phase from which it has never emerged.

But we shouldn’t underestimate how dramatically liberals turned against the Apollo project at the moment of its triumph—a sign of the larger collapse of liberalism in the 1960s. The moon landing had been set out as a lofty goal by the liberals’ hero, John F. Kennedy, and the moon landing was an occasion of national pride and celebration for most Americans. Here, amidst the rubble and gloom of the 1960s, was something that had gone splendidly right. Many leading liberals, however, could only sniff that while the moon landing was undeniably impressive, the money for the moon landing would have been better spent on social problems on Earth.

And the chaser:

This may have been the moment when liberalism certified that it had become a crabbed and negative force in American life. It has never recovered.

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