Moon Landing

[Chevalier Blanc]

It is 40 years since man took off to go and land on the moon. Landing on 19th.July 1969. What is unbelievable is that they have digital re-recorded the original film that was in black and white but in doing so have lost the original forever. How can someone do that with history in that way. I have to say that for 3 days we were all glued to the radio and tv. Man has never leaped so much in such short a time than in the last 100 years. I believe there will never be such history making taking everything into account ever again. The only thing left i suppose is to be able to transport a human through space, like beam me up Scotty. Just think of Harry Patch the ww1 veteran, he has seen so much in his lifetime that he must believe that he died years ago and had came back centuries later. There where no planes when he was born and man landing on the moon.

[moot]

It would be interesting to hear where you were while watching the landing
I watched it on a black on white TV which the US embassy in Warsaw had placed on its fence where Poles could watch it. Fascinating experience it was ! Not only watching the screen but watching the Poles who were still under communist rule
Where were you ?

[Chevalier Blanc]

I was at home with b/w tv but listening to the radio on the whole of the expedition in my workshop on the New North Quay. The landing i seem to recall was late at night or early morning in g.m.t. It was when they got back and you saw the colour film that they had taken and left a colour camera on the moon to send the signals back to earth on take off. I remember apollo 10 and it going around the moon on Christmas eve and the message that Lovell sent to earth " in the begining god creatured the earth" and you saw the earth for the first time from space and it looked beautiful, this round blue,white and green ball floating in a black sea that never ended. The technical aspects fascinated me owing to my trade. I thought at the time it was only 60 years since the first flight made by man and now we are on the moon.

[Fritz]

I was working in a Hollywood studio where a company called NASA had rented a few of the lots for a couple of months previously.

[Chevalier Blanc]

Well we know where your coming from.

[Norman_Point]

Well done, Fritz, for killing off a potentially interesting thread.

Thanks also for making me laugh out loud!

[stoneface]

It's amazing, isn't it? Aeronautics and space travel are two of the very few areas where the "state of the art" has actually retreated.

I'm too young to have watched the moon landings, and I think I missed out. I say this not because I don't think amazing things will happen in my life time - they will - but because I'm not sure I'll experience the same feelings of amazement. Movie and film technology, in particular video graphics, have advanced so far that we can create out of nothing any image we want. Maybe I'll see a man walk on Mars - but I've already seen it, it just wasn't real.

I hope my fears will  be unjustified.

[Chevalier Blanc]

Well depending on your age you may well see things that will blow your mind because there is still loads that the human being will achieve of which we cannot even think about today. Medicine, space, war technology etc. But never a century like this last one. Man will go on to great things if it does not blow it's self apart with war.

[Durendal]

Listened to Radio 4 yesterday and Michael Portillo said that he was so happy that Apollo 11 succeeded because of the problems with Apollo 8.

I think his memory must have gone as Apollo 8 was a slingshot around the Moon and methinks he was referring to Apollo 13 which was after Apollo 11.

I am just glad that he is unlikely to be a member of any government.

[Chevalier Blanc]

Just been watching a programme on the Wright Brothers and the making of their fist plane to fly. It took you right back to the beginning when they first started to experiment with flying. 106 years ago man flew for the first time, now Henry who died the other day aged 113 would have been 7 years old and would have wondered at the marvel of this along with everybody else. From man's first flight to landing on the moon in just 66 years. What a CENTURY!!!!!

[debumblebee]

Its a great piece of history but its suprising that 40 years on Dandara aren't building up there yet. Luxery Lunar flats with views of the galaxy? Some idiot would buy one.

[rogueelement]

Quite obviously they are waiting for the head of planning to stake a claim on behalf of Jersey,pay for it , gift the site to them or Harcourt ,on the basis that it will be a more unique atmosphere to work in than Jersey.
I am sure that Freddie will be totally agreeably to whatever they suggest so long as he has a slice of the cheese.

[imacrappaud]

At least there will be more Space than in the present flats they build.

Ok, time to go!

[debumblebee]

DANDARA 3000 - Luxery Penthouse Lunar Flats over looking the Sea of Tranquility ready soon. built with first class moon rock which gives a genuine atmosphere with no noise.  Ample parking for moon buggies. All flats fitted with gravitational toilet devices for "easy shit  living". Zero deposit mortgages available through "Star buy home Loans" Starting from Twenty Billion Space Pounds.

[Chevalier Blanc]

I want one!!!  so long as it is iconic.