mike flugennock wrote:



*Yeah -- when the wife's job sends her out of town, I put myself to
sleep with the NASA TV All-Night PAO Reel Marathon -- no, not the
Video File, but those good old hard-boiled 60s/early 70s PAO
documentaries. Sad, huh?

'This is Saturn V. There are many questions to be answered before we can
build Saturn V."*
Yeah, they were dead serious back then....this was no feel-good stuff,
this was _rocket science_; and we were going toe-to-toe with the ruskies
over it.
Their choice of music was great also. When they showed something in
space, they'd have these strange arias that would sound like a cross
between Handel's Messiah and Forbidden Planet. The overall effect was
that the astronauts would be in some sort of religious trance from being
up in the heavens and near God.
People who didn't live through it don't realize just what a strange time
that was, and how the national space program got to be an obsession to
the degree of a religious crusade during the early 1960's.

* "Question one: Can something this fukin' big ever get off the ground?
Question two: Can we get America to ever completely trust Mr. V-2 over
there?" :-)

Pat