Apollo 8

On Dec 22, 4:51�pm, "Scott M. Kozel" wrote:
" wrote:

Apollo 8 was the first time that man left the Earth and visited
another heavenly body. Manned space missions before that were in low
Earth orbit.

Sadly TODAY we are completely unable to do it again And given the
current NASA plans including Ares wouldnt be able to forever..........

Obviously we could do it again, if we were willing to spend the
money .....

yeah take the nasa saturn moon budget, adjust for inflation and then
times it by 20 to cover nasa pork, and triple the number of years to
do the paperwork, then double the overall final cost, to cover
political payoffs for current shuttle contractors.

OM wrote:

...As one who lived through 1968, it was a pretty ****ty year that
needed something like the Genesis Reading to restore hope to the
millions of viewers. For me, it was an affirmation of my own beliefs
in the necessity of space exploration, as well as a major "**** YOU,
YOU PATHETIC BITCH!" to this luddite skank I had my first 2nd grade
teacher. Thankfully by the time A8 had been launched, I'd moved to
another school and didn't have to put up with her retarded need to
bash NASA's efforts whenever I brought up the subject. I always wish I
had looked up her phone number, called her up after the broadcast, and
laughed at her being proven wrong again.

You must have been a very precocious 7-year-old!

--
Dave Michelson

Dave Michelson wrote:

You must have been a very precocious 7-year-old!

You have no idea...he'd already killed many by that time. :-D

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:

Dave Michelson wrote:

You must have been a very precocious 7-year-old!

You have no idea...he'd already killed many by that time. :-D

I always thought that the most logical explanation is that OM was
George S. Patton in a previous life.

--
Dave Michelson

Dave Michelson wrote:

I always thought that the most logical explanation is that OM was
George S. Patton in a previous life.

More likely Eric Cartman. :-)

Pat

BTW, don't forget
http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/msfn_missions/Apollo_8_mission/index.html
has audio tapes of their parts of the mission..


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On Dec 21, 8:14*am, Al wrote:
The most important Apollo mission of them all launched 40 years ago
today.

Besides A-13, it could be the only other live lunar orbital mission as
having gone past Earth-moon L1. Perhaps some day they will provide us
with objective proof-positive of anything similar to those fly-by-
rocket landers, EVAs and unfiltered Kodak moments that oddly do not
match up with anything since.

JAXA is still playing it safe, meanwhile even the ISRO impactor
science doesn't add up.

~ BG