What do Neil Armstrong and Michael Jackson...

[RICHARD]

...have in common?


They both have 'moon walked'!


The 40th anny of the moon landing is next week and I was thinking about the stories or thoughts about this event that anyone has.

I do remember all the excitement about it and I remember standing in a store, in the TV section watching one of the walks with a bunch of people. It was kinda cool and I that is one of the things that really got me interested in all things flown, in the air and in space!

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Buzz Aldrin has a book out, and did a rap song recently, about his life after becoming know and the second man who walked on the moon. He battled alcoholism and other personal problems in the years following the landing.

That looks like great story!

[Karen]

I was only 4 years old, but I do remember watching it on television, because my older brother and sister came and got me, and sat me on the floor in between them in front of the small (by today's standards) black and white TV in the livingroom, and said "You HAVE to watch this. It's important." So I did, and I remember!

[pomtzu]

I remember when it was, but didn't get to watch it. My ex and I and kids got back from vacation (showing off new baby to grandparents in RI) that day. We raced against the clock to make it home in time - walked in the house and turned on the t.v. - and it blew a tube.
Yup - those were the days when those dinosaur televisions had tubes!

[RICHARD]

Happy MOONday!

[boomersooner]

I had just turned 8, and I remember my mom making me come in and watch it because of the historic moment.......I'm glad she did!!

[kokopup]

I worked for Nasa in the days leading up to putting men on the moon. While the average American may have understood the historical significants of that day, very few really appreciated the work and preparation that led up to that day. I worked on the Saturn 5 and know of all the problems that had to be overcome to meet Kennedy's deadline of a man on the moon before the end of the decade. There were many hours of work and lives sacrificed to get us there.

I remember attending a lecture by Wernher Von Braun in 1965 when he gave his vision of how we would put men on the moon. I remember thinking how impossible this was and all that could go wrong to prevent this from happening. The fact that we did put men on the moon in 1969 with the technology of that day is truly amazing. The Young people today take technology so for granted and haven't a clue what it takes to enable them to TEXT their friends across thousands of miles. If you told the average young person today we would put men on Mars tomorrow they would probably give you a shocked look and ask "you mean we haven't already been"

I am a little surprised at richard comparing Neil Armstrong to Michael Jackson... Comparing the two Moon walks would be like me comparing a monkey at the circus to Lance Armstrong because both had ridden a bicycles.

[RICHARD]

I am a little surprised at richard comparing Neil Armstrong to Michael Jackson... Comparing the two Moon walks would be like me comparing a monkey at the circus to Lance Armstrong because both had ridden a bicycles.

In no way was the comparison meant to lessen NA's accomplishment. IT was meant more tongue in cheek than anything else.

As the date drew near I was thinking about that summer and how the anny of the Moon Walk and the person who made up the 'moonwalk' were in the news. (Also Walter C passing away so close to the date!)


Of course, Lance and the monkey do have riding a bicycle in common, up until the point where you have to squeeze the ape into that form fitting yellow jersey, then, all bets are off?


Thanks for all your work with NASA, the county, and the space program.


And thanks to you, I'll be out tonight looking for the ISS on it's way by!

[Grace]

Oh boy - that was cool

Watching them land on the moon, again, exactly 40 years later, to the minute. Good job CNN.

[joycenalex]

i remember watching, snowy black and white pictures.....marveling at humans walking on land other then our terra ...amazing.

[Grace]

TIME magazine's cover story this week is about the 24 men who have walked on the surface of the moon. Fascinating!!

I found these 2 paragraphs to be very interesting -

NASA officials carefully screened for pilots who were made of tough physical stuff, and they chose well. In 1930, about the time most of the lunar astronauts were born, the life expectancy for a white American male was 59.1 years. In 2009, three-quarters of the former moonmen are still alive, and all of them are near or past 80 — not a likely result of chance. The doctors weren't looking equally hard for men who were free of poetry or fancy, but it was no surprise that they got that too. "They were all fighter pilots," says Dr. J.D. Polk, NASA's current chief of medical operations. "Psychologically speaking, they were a pretty self-selecting group."

But if the pilots weren't wired for wonder, they were wired for fun. After the successful mission of Apollo 11 — a serious, almost grimly flown affair — things loosened up, and the astronauts took advantage of the high adventure of their jobs. When the late Pete Conrad, commander of Apollo 12, hopped down from his lunar module, he eschewed any resonant words about small steps and giant leaps and went instead for a simple "whoopee!"

[RICHARD]

TIME magazine's cover story this week is about the 24 men who have walked on the surface of the moon. Fascinating!!

I found these 2 paragraphs to be very interesting -

Years ago I spied a small article in the paper that crushed me.

Neil Armstrong had an accident that took off a part of his finger. He was in a barn working when it happened. I was so stunned that someone who had gone to the moon could fall victim to such an earthly misfortune.

My heroes never stumble.

[kitten645]

I was seven and we weren't big TV watchers. My mom made dinner early and we made a point of sitting in front of the tv (in my parents bedroom) and watching the landing. My dad was a scientist at a lab and I was amazed that he was dumbstruck by this! He was the sort you couldn't ask why a penny was copper without a 40 minute disertation on Roman times etc!
I saw a fantastic video on Huffpost today that shows Buzz CLOCKING a nut job that got in his face about the lunar landing being a hoax. Classic! Love Buzz all the more! I'd have clocked him too.
Claudia

[RICHARD]

I saw a fantastic video on Huffpost today that shows Buzz CLOCKING a nut job that got in his face about the lunar landing being a hoax. Classic! Love Buzz all the more! I'd have clocked him too.
Claudia

Buzz is the consumate Man's Man!

Your father wanted to make sure that everyone got credit for their work!!!!!

[smokey the elder]

You all might want to check out Google this morning.

[RICHARD]

You all might want to check out Google this morning.

Totally cool!

I saw the ISS do it's flyby last night! It was visible for about a minute and was really cool to see!